Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these were not the offensives worrying the Germans. Their spokesmen pointed northward, to the 40-mile stretch held by the Allies along the Roer where the guns of Lieut. Gen. William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army were already drumming a prelude to battles to come. Six new armored divisions, four new infantry divisions had suddenly appeared in this area, said the Nazi radio. The Allies, it added, were preparing for a smash across the Cologne plain to the Rhine...
...were already strapped for merchandise (anything they bought was as good as sold), but with few exceptions the apparel manufacturers were accepting no new customers. They were favoring the old ones only with 75% to 80% of last year's orders and talking direly of slow deliveries. Furthermore, spokesmen warned all & sundry that the apparel industry faces a possible 1945 decline of $500,000,000 in retail dollar volume. When Germany is defeated, they gloomed, consumer interest will turn from clothes, which have been relatively plentiful, to goods that will go into production when the war pinch eases...
Waning Suspicion? After months of pulling & hauling, Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz agreed to let some 80 UNRRA officials supervise distribution of UNRRA food, medicines, etc. in Partisan Yugoslavia. The negotiations were between UNRRA and Tito spokesmen, but everyone concerned (including UNRRA's men waiting in Bari, Italy for permission to cross the Adriatic) knew that the question was a test of Soviet intentions at the working level...
...Protestant Churches (see below). Not only did their spokesmen in Cleveland swallow Dumbarton Oaks with all its flaws, but in their appended criticisms they never once questioned the all-out use of force in maintaining the peace...
...last week the "near future" appeared to be perceptibly nearer. In Washington War Secretary Henry L. Stimson-as if in answer to mounting Allied calls for action*-referred unequivocally to "a Russian winter offensive." Washington newsmen attributed to "Soviet spokesmen" a promise of a large-scale offensive aimed at the Polish plain, reported that its starting date had been confided to the U.S. and Britain (the Soviet Embassy denied any such promises...