Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somebody in Washington, preferably Roosevelt, to outline a program for everyone and apply it. They want Roosevelt, whom most of them still like 100%, to quit suggesting that drastic steps may have to be taken, and actually to take those drastic steps -to tell Phil Murray, William Green, the spokesmen for the farm groups and all the other minority outfits, to go to the devil...
...time for the diplomatic niceties and strategic reticences which blunted the first announcements after Molotov visited Eden and Roosevelt (TIME, June 22). Last week Moscow's spokesmen did what none had done before: they said flatly that the U.S. and Great Britain had decided "to open a second front in Europe in 1942." Commissars in the field with the Red Army quoted this unqualified declaration to the troops-and Moscow let its allies know that the Red Army had heard of the promise. Russia in her hour of peril had given the promise of hope to her troops...
China's spokesmen in the U.S. politely but insistently emphasized her immediate need. Major General Chu Shih-ming, Chinese Military Attache in Washington, declared that with a well-balanced force of 500 U.S. bombers and fighters, China's armies could take the offensive; in other words, 500 would be enough to save China for the present...
Censor Troubles. Last December, when a British offensive in Libya unexpectedly bogged down, the London Daily Mirror cried in anguish: "Can nobody dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesmen in Cairo?" Apparently not. Even after Tobruk, the Cairo censorship seemed determined to let only pink fog get through the screen-thus taxing the ingenuity of one sardonic correspondent who was bound to get a little acid out along with the fog. Chester Morrison of the Chicago Sun cabled his paper: "The delicacies of censorship are such that I was stumped in trying to devise a way to tell...
...with President Roosevelt. Though Mr. Krock's words might be a cluster of sour grapes, they were filled with the seeds of righteousness. Said Krock: "An administration which is operating under the most democratic form of Government in the world has once again told its story through unofficial spokesmen instead of telling the story itself...