Word: communique
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...blamed Army & Navy officers in the field, who used censorship to keep "news from Americans instead of facts from the enemy." Press-relations officers became "nothing but messenger boys," said Pratt, and most correspondents, under these official repressions, "turned into 'handout men,' waiting around headquarters for the communiqu...
...Byrnes was buoyant. Bevin was less buoyant; asked about the future he quoted the Gospel according to St. Matthew: "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Molotov said nothing at all, but Moscow papers applauded the communiqu...
When the Foreign Ministers' communiqué showed that the successive stages had been kept, Republican Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan hit the roof. With ample senatorial backing, he stormed to the White House, got a Truman promise that no U.S. atomic secrets would be released until a full security system is in effect. He also got assurance from the State Department that the four stages were really meant to be simultaneous. If so, this passage in the Moscow communiqué was even more cryptically worded than other Big Three statements...
Proof of the Pudding. By the time Jimmy Byrnes's plane reached Washington, the world had had time to read the communiqué, think it over. At the airport he wearily told reporters he had just one wish: "To get out of my drawers and have a haircut." Eagerly he asked State Department aides: "What was the reaction to the communiqu...
...Attlee visibly brightened. By dinner, the atmosphere was almost gay. The host had expected his company to stay three days. But things were going so well that, over coffee, he proposed a late night session to tidy up loose ends. By 3 a.m. the business was done. A vague communiquè cloaked a definite though general plan...