Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exceed 25 words, must not mention military topics, weather, geographical locations. Incoming & outgoing messages clear through local diocesan offices, enter or leave the country by Washington's Apostolic Delegation. There, under the supervision of Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, ten to 24 seminarians are on duty to receive and dispatch the communications. All messages pass through censorship...
...unable to find a way out of the war or an escape from Axis domination, the Finns knew what to fear next. A Helsinki dispatch expressed the forlorn hope that the U.S. move "would not mean a final breach in relations...
...Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper, Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Foreign Editor Charles Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor and Washington Starman Blair Bolles last week were in London, en route to visit Sweden. National Broadcasting Co.'s London man, Elmer Peterson, will go with them...
Last week Germany's official D.N.B. agency began a coded radio dispatch to provincial newspapers: "The Führer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. . . ." later ordered editors to delete the words "Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces." Allied monitors concluded that Adolf Hitler had at last relinquished the supreme command...
...London News Chronicle wrote the epitaph on the grave of earlier hopes : "Nothing less than a full-scale sea, land and air assault can blast (the Jap) out of Burma." From Chungking, TIME'S Correspondent T. H. White filed a dispatch through U.S. and Chinese censors: "It is no secret anywhere in the world that the decision of the Battle of Asia will be fought in Burma some time...