Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly a week was lost in getting started on the new drafts of manpower and the wrenching of the economy that would be necessary to meet the new crisis. The President spent most of the week conferring with Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee (see below). Their muted communiqué was the only authoritative word heard out of Washington in answer to the black headlines from the front...
...Governments Differ." The differences were greater than emphasis. There were basic differences of policy and they became clear a few days later when the conferees ended their talks and ceremoniously issued a "joint communiqué." Throughout the communiqué ran a brave effort to make the piercing contradictions come out on the same note. "There is no difference between us as to the nature of the threat. . . There can be no thought of apeasement or of rewarding aggression...
...learning that he has cancer or tuberculosis. The news of Pearl Harbor, nine years ago to the month, had pealed out like a fire bell. But the numbing facts of the defeat in Korea seeped into the national consciousness slowly out of a jumble of headlines, bulletins and communiqués; days passed before its enormity finally became plain...
...Disturb. This sounded like murky talk to a nation whose arms crisis had been as clear as black & white since last June. Symington, testifying before a Senate committee the day after MacArthur's communiqué, said that "we ought to try and give present controls more chance and get a little clearer view of exactly what it is that the Defense Department wants before we, you might say, strait-jacket the economy." Essentially, the Administration had been more worried about keeping the $226 billion economy unruffled than about U.S. defenses. For example, instead of pressing the button...
...arena. It was there, in front of the Yalu power sites, that the enemy had the bulk of his men and his strongest preparations for defense. General MacArthur would have to get his western offensive rolling again quickly to make good on the bold words of his opening-day communiqué. MacArthur ordered the marines at Changjin reservoir to strike west toward the flank of the rampaging Chinese. The marines moved three miles west, then stalled against stubborn resistance...