Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disgruntled Britons, still griping about the proposed $4.4 billion loan from the U.S., had a somewhat sour spokesman in one Tom Collins, London suburbanite. His comment, in a News Chronicle interview: "The loan should be liquidated by charging the U.S. a yearly rental for the use of the English language...
This stinging accusation drew a sputtering answer and a significant admission from Warsaw officials in London. Said their spokesman, Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Zygmunt Modzelewski...
...French consul general in Shanghai, because the French had shanghaied an alleged collaborator named Tosoli (wanted by the new all-Chinese Municipal Government) , and shipped him off to Indo-China. But Gallic jitters vanished when the Embassy learned that the students had already served protests elsewhere. "Ah," said a spokesman, "everybody is in trouble, out? That's much better...
...Indies to accept the Jap surrender and to keep order during the process.) With India, Burma and Malaya in the back of their minds, they trod warily, favoring neither full native autonomy nor a return to prewar colonialism. "If the Dutch make a reasonable offer," said a British spokesman, "the rest depends on the Indonesians. We can only satisfy reason; then we must deal with unreason." Significantly he added: "If matters come to the use of force by the Dutch, world opinion will not stand...
...less fog-making soft coal. Although the yearly discharge of soot and ashes is down to 300 tons per sq. mi., London's diligent Smoke Abatement Society is by no means satisfied. For one thing, deaths from respiratory diseases increase during foggy weather. But, as a Smoke Abatement spokesman unequivocally stated: "The most injurious effect of fog is more subtle-in obstructing sunlight and daylight...