Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fantastic,"snorted a government spokesman in Athens...
Rumors swept the press that U.S. gunmen had pulled the job, but a French police spokesman said with wounded dignity: "There were no foreigners on this job, no Americans, no Italians, no nothing. This was a job conceived, planned and executed entirely by Frenchmen...
...Vatican had known it would stir up such a storm in hundreds of thousands of minds. "The misguided or illusioned," said a Vatican spokesman, "will be obliged to review their ideas and cut off their [Party] membership...
...Vatican called the Czech threat of prosecution for treason "laughable nonsense." A Vatican spokesman asserted: "Excommunication has no need of a material executor who can be traced and punished. Excommunication acts upon the guilty in the secret of the conscience." On the other hand, Eastern Catholics who were terrorized into lip service to Communism would not incur the penalties of the papal edict. Priests, he added, were expected to do their duty regardless of personal consequences...
...like a hot hand grenade as soon as the New York agreement was reached last May. They no doubt disliked Western stockpiling in Berlin as a buffer against possible future blockades. But Washington accepted with equanimity the prospect of more trouble on the Autobahnen. Said one Department of State spokesman: "We worked out a pretty good scheme of retaliation measures at the time of the lifting of the blockade. The degree of our reaction will be strictly proportionate to the Russian attitude...