Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeal is directed primarily toward colleges groups concerned with international affairs, each of which is asked to send a representative armed with a list of available speakers. According to an Association spokesman, the Liberal Union, the College Forum, the Republican Forum, as well as possibly the Speakers Committee, should fall into the "interested" category...
Reality & Shadow. Russia's proposal for troop inventories everywhere outside of national frontiers had embarrassed Britain considerably. Britain was afraid, not of disclosing strength, but of disclosing weakness in troubled areas. As a Whitehall spokesman sadly put it, "People will realize that we've been holding a lot of these places with little more than a smile and a bar of chocolate for the children. Local populations may be emboldened to twist the lion's tail." Therefore Britain suggested that the inventories include troops at home as well as abroad, and that they be verified...
...another, this question of Allied disagreement was bound to preoccupy Germans. Hitler fought a war on the assumption Russia and the West could not stay together until victory. Now Schumacher, the first important German spokesman Britons had heard since Hitler, was saying,- with intent exactly opposite to Hitler's, that Allied disagreement must not be allowed to frustrate the peace...
...spokesman for the Boston branch of the Post Office reminded prospective gift-sonders that the deadline for west bound backages was last month, but that parcels sent "special handling" or "special delivery" and under the weight and size limits may still reach their western destinations "with reasonable assurance." Emergency restrictions, however, do not hold for points within the Boston postal district or A.P.O. centers...
...square in front of one opposition party's headquarters was patrolled by pickets whose function Premier Petru Groza described as 'protection of the opposition,' but whom one Government spokesman called 'overzealous workers.' I saw 20 overzealous workers beat an oppositionist within an inch of his life...