Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Groton, Conn. last week, two sleek, new submarines for the Peruvian navy slid down the ways in a dramatic double launching, and a watching crowd cheered. In Lima, a sour official communiqué suggested that the new government would have been just as happy if the submarines had never been ordered...
Five of the stories are by Jean Stafford, the biggest name and most accomplished craftsman of the group. Mostly, she is writing communiqués in the unceasing wars between children and adults and between the innocent and the worldly. Her work is marred by a truly feminine absorption in detail so that sometimes she seems to be writing for visitors from Mars, as in Bad Characters with its loving description of a 5 & 10? store, and in Beatrice Trueblood's Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with...
...days of doubt appeared behind him as the 53-year-old Acting Secretary went about his double duties. In whatever top decision he made, Hoover got adequate advice from two top sources. One: Dwight Eisenhower. The other: John Foster Dulles, perched in a hospital bed strewn with cables and communiqués, keeping in touch through two assistants and two State Department extension telephones...
...From the communiqués it was easy to believe that what had taken place in Egypt was "an immaculate war." In London Defense Minister Antony Head announced that British casualties "did not exceed 85, of whom not more than 20 were killed." And from the beginning the Anglo-French high command emphasized the careful concentration on purely military targets, the deliberate effort to spare Egyptian lives and property...
Experts in this kind of doubletalk themselves, the Soviet leaders wrapped up Sukarno's visit in a joint communiqué piously proclaiming the "solidarity of the two governments," later let it be known that a $100 million loan to Indonesia (repayable in twelve years at 2½%) had been signed. Indonesia has already had a $100 million loan from the U.S. and last March received what amounted to a gift of U.S. surplus farm commodities worth $96 million. While some Indonesian officials were saying that, by comparison with the U.S. loans, the Soviet loan was "without strings," actually...