Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bless America." The Army hoped that most Japs and Nisei would go quietly, of their own accord. Japanese spokesmen said that was wishful thinking: some 90% of the Coast's Japs are destitute, or will be in a few weeks...
...fierce preparation, a planned thoroughness of resistance which the British in Burma and Malaya and dozing Americans in Honolulu and Manila patently lacked when the Japs first came. This was the quality, the mighty intangible, which Conrad Helfrich, the Indies' Lieut. Governor Hubertus van Mook and other Batavia spokesmen meant when they cried to their allies to stand with the Dutch, to risk everything and put everything into the defense of Java...
...years the British Government had been saying that it would give India self-government when India's conflicting parties could agree. Last week Government spokesmen were still putting it up to the Indians. Said Colonial Secretary Lord Cranborne: "If the Indian leaders would get together and devise some scheme which would be satisfactory to all, the Indian problem would be satisfactorily solved." Said Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax: "We are anxious and prepared to do our part, but . . . they first must conquer the fundamental difficulty, that of unification between the Hindu and Moslem parties...
Moscow war correspondents and military observers have come to learn that vaguely worded Soviet communiqués usually herald some startling news. Last week Red Army spokesmen conceded a substantial stiffening in German resistance, continued to weigh Russian gains in terms of scores of villages and "tens of kilometers," were carefully vague for several days about specific details of the Soviet advance...
...When the smoke cleared away, 25 persons lay dead, 60 hurt. The bombs blew apart the luggage of a departing British official. As if by magic, yelling Arabs appeared from nowhere with baskets filled with rocks, began stoning the windows of British business houses. To the radio hopped Axis spokesmen, claiming that the exploded luggage had disgorged British propaganda. London called the episode an obvious Axis trick...