Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vyacheslav Molotov made a quick trip last week to Prague. At his behest, the Foreign Ministers of Russia's seven East European satellites were on hand to confer with him. There was good reason to believe that the Soviet Deputy Premier had a communiqué all ready in his pocket for the lesser comrades to initial...
...truculent document, devoted mostly to vilifying the Western powers for their plan to rearm Western Germany (". . . the aggressive bloc of the so-called Atlantic pact [is trying] to make [Germany] definitely a tool of their aggressive, war-strategic plans in Europe . . ."). Then, crying "peace and international security," the communiqué demanded a Big Four "proclamation" banning the remilitarization of Germany, a peace treaty to be followed by the withdrawal of occupation forces, a new "All-German Constitutional Council" uniting East and West Germany...
...fighting bravely and well on the U.S. right flank. But the U.S. left flank was open: there was a yawning gap between this flank and the west coast. Around it the North Koreans poured two crack divisions, the 4th and 6th (described, in Douglas MacArthur's overoptimistic communiqués of that period, as "roving bands). In a matter of days they swept through the southwestern corner of Korea and raced east for Pusan. They were in sight of Masan, 30 miles from Pusan, before they were stopped by a small, determined force of the 24th Infantry (later replaced...
That afternoon, the Yugoslavs began the trek back, the housewives waving their brooms, the girls their lipsticks. Yugoslav authorities feared that further excursions into the capitalist parts of Gorizia would breed discontent among Tito's subjects. At week's end, Italian newspapers carried a laconic communiqué: "Permits to cross the Italian-Yugoslav frontier will be stopped until further notice...
...Communiqué from Tokyo