Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world had learned that Big Three communiqués never solve as much as they seem to, so optimism over the results was tinged with considerable caution. But by any reckoning, the meeting had at least got big-power collaboration started again. Now UNO could come on from the wings without having the curtain suddenly rung down on it. The peace-making could go forward...
...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...