Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first day of the new Allied drive for the Yalu, Douglas MacArthur issued a confident communiqué: "The United Nations massive compression envelopment in North Korea against the new Red armies operating there is now approaching its decisive effort ... If successful, this should for all practical purposes end the war, restore peace and unity to Korea, enable the prompt withdrawal of United Nations military forces, and permit the complete assumption by Korea of full sovereignty and international equality. It is that for which we fight...
...armed forces in Indo-China as needed to fight the war, and 2) dispense the budget voted for Indo-China without consulting Petsche. Finance Minister Petsche gave in, but Moch put up a two-day fight. At week's end Letourneau appeared to have won. A laconic communiqué said that Letourneau "will be in charge of all the necessary measures" to carry through the government's Indo-China policy...
...ministers. The Socialists were dragging their feet over the issue. One of their spokesmen, Defense Minister Jules Moch, was opposed to the U.S. plan for quick recruitment of a Germany army. "I will be the minister of French rearmament, not of German rearmament," he said stubbornly. A hectoring Communist communiqué from Prague (see INTERNATIONAL), demanding a halt to German rearmament, sent some Socialists into a flutter; they saw "another Korea on our doorstep...
...correspondents on the trip. The dustup was over the newsbeat Smith had scored on the Wake meeting by breaking an agreement with his peers. At Wake, the correspondents had to share a single radio teletypewriter to Honolulu. As a result, they agreed to pool the first communiqué from the conference and send it as a joint dispatch to the three wire services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service. When the communiqué-the only real news in the meeting-was issued, it was sent down to the radio shack for transmission. Before it could be sent, Smith...
...Washington Chief Lyle C. Wilson. Smith stoutly denied he had taken-or even seen-the Leviero wire. As for that episode at Wake, his feat there was simply in the great tradition of enterprising journalism. Reporter Smith clucked his tongue and sadly observed: "I was trying to get the communiqué out first in Wake and I did. I know they are awful mad at me at the White House and in the press room, but there is nothing I can do about...