Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew especially cutting when he alluded to the French. The meeting, scheduled for an hour, stretched into four. Minister after minister rose to contribute his sense of outrage, and the improvised Cabinet room in the hotel swelled with heady, confident talk of Germany resurrected. Next morning, in a formal communiqué, the Adenauer government announced that it would seek restoration of sovereignty and rearmament within a security system through negotiations with the U.S.. Britain and those powers that had ratified EDC. France was not mentioned, as though it did not exist. The Allies were also notified that West Germany...
...never really given the Vietnamese army a chance. The French had blocked formation of the Vietnamese army until 1951-five years after the war began; they had denied the Vietnamese a sizable share of modern U.S. equipment and financial aid; they had played down Vietnamese exploits in the GHQ communiqués. The French had also deliberately hamstrung the young army by training only companies and battalions at a time, by scattering these units piecemeal across Indo-China under French command and by holding back the training of Vietnamese officers. (There are today only 7,500 trained Vietnamese officers, when...
From the War Office last week came an unexpected communiqué: General Sir Gerald Templer, 55, victor of Malaya, would not get his promised command of the 80,000-man British Army of the Rhine. "Plans for General Templer's future employment in an important military appointment," said the War Office, "will be announced later. General Templer has been granted a long leave...
...meet the Mau Mau chiefs and escort them, under safe conduct, to talks with Major General George Heyman, the British chief of staff. The two policemen drove their jeeps deep into murderland. One big parley was ruined by sheer heavyhandedness. Major General Heyman arrived, but as the army communiqué put it, "the Mau Mau representatives came within a few hundred yards but something frightened them off." The "something" was 1,800 British and African infantrymen, poured into the area to protect the British brass...
...nationalist-terrorist Moslem Brotherhood, sealed most of its 2,000 headquarters with red wax and confiscated its property worth $8,500,000. Egypt's new revolutionary regime had at last found the decision and strength to break the fanatic group it once found necessary to appease. Said a communiqué: "The Revolution will not allow a recurrence of the reactionary tragedy in the name of religion." A quarter century ago, an intense young theology graduate named Hassan el Banna wrathfully watched the French and British, with their well-dressed women, tippling in the Canal Zone clubs...