Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Countermeasures." The North Korean radio broadcast war whoops. According to the Communist version of events, the Southerners had invaded the North and were being "repulsed." Cried a North Korean communiqué: "The People's Republic will be obliged to resort to decisive countermeasures...
...Verbal Misunderstanding." France, Italy, West Germany and the Benelux countries had announced that they were ready to start talks to implement the Schuman Plan. The British had grudgingly agreed to send delegates to these talks. But when the French suggested that the participating nations issue a joint communiqué stating the purposes of the talks (i.e., to merge Western Europe's coal and steel industries under an international authority), the British refused; they argued that this would mean an advance commitment to the plan. In its best diplomatic manner, France's Foreign Ministry announced that a slight "verbal...
...French reworded their draft communiqué to make it clear that it implied merely an agreement to try to reach agreement. The British still argued that it read to them like an advance commitment. A Quai d'Orsay spokesman said testily: "Their diplomatic notes sound as if they haven't read our diplomatic notes...
...talking of last week's decisions in the West's cold war against Communism. The North Atlantic Council in London made a decision that lifted the West's alliance off its neat, stiff treaty paper and pushed it toward organizational reality. The council's communiqué spoke of "the creation of balanced collective forces in the progressive buildup of the defense of the North Atlantic area...
...week's end no communiqué had been issued on the outcome of five weeks of dickering between the Russian and Chinese commissars...