Word: informative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little Gironde town of Cenon, where Communists are particularly strong, Town Constable Charles Magne reported to the mayor one day: "Monsieur le Maire, I have the honor to inform you that disorderly elements have been busy last night defacing our fair city with unsightly inscriptions." Sure enough, the decent walls of Cenon were plastered with such discourteous signs as "U.S. Go Home" and "Ridgway-Assassin." Said Mayor René Cassagne: "I hereby order you to take a bucket of whitewash and efface these inscriptions." Constable Magne blotted out the signs-but next morning there were more of them...
...last year protesting against the Communists' tyrannical rule in East Germany. Moscow's reaction was swift. Last week, the day before the bishop and five other German churchmen were due to leave, a wire arrived from Moscow's Bishop Nikolai: "I regret deeply to have to inform you that the Very Holy Patriarch is sick. This makes it impossible to receive you as planned." Germans were incensed at the turndown. Headlined West Berlin's Neue Zeitung: DIBELIUS EX-VITED. Added Der Tagesspiegel: "That's what we call Soviet coordination. Stalin runs a fever...
...every visitor has an easy time, however. A few weeks ago Miss Belcher had a near catastrophe on her hands. A French newspaperman had arrived expressly to see Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Foundation, about journalism problems that were plaguing his country. He had forgotten to inform Massachusetts Hall that he could not speak English, and since Lyons knows no French the conversation was somewhat disorganized. It was over an hour before Miss Belcher could find an interpreter, and by then both men had given up in despair...
Student to Inform Instructor...
Grimbel received a directive from Air University Headquarters last, summer which cut the Yale quota from 225 to 158. He wrote the 230 men enrolled in the course, informing them of the cut and requesting that those who wished to drop out inform him personally...