Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statesmen, the spokesmen, the politicians, the leaders, could speak for unity. They did so. Herbert Hoover: "American soil has been treacherously attacked by Japan. We must fight with everything we have...
Russian forces had caused Paul von Kleist to pick up his maps and binoculars and beat it from Rostov-on-Don 40 miles west to Taganrog, then toward Mariupol, 60 miles farther. Except for dismissing the whole affair as a diversion, Berlin spokesmen blushed and shut...
Naturally enough, Russian spokesmen beamed and spoke up. They claimed that General von Kleist had thrown away nine divisions: the 13th, 14th and 16th Panzer divisions; the 60th motorized; the Viking and Adolf Hitler Leibstandarte SS divisions; the 76th, 94th and 97th Infantry divisions. It was said that Commander in Chief Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had gone to the southern front to help put a stop to the rout. But the figure on casualties claimed to have been suffered by all these divisions was 23,000, the normal strength of only one and a half infantry divisions. This would...
...showed also that the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines had lost none of their old spirit. Berlin, having called Rostov "the door to the Caucasus" and "the spigot of the oil of Baku" when they took the place, now called it "just another town." Russian spokesmen, having belittled the loss of the Donets Basin on the grounds that all industries were either removed or sabotaged beyond recovery, now gravely explained: "It is obviously easier to rebuild an existing plant than to erect a new one, particularly when skilled workers and technicians who are familiar with the damaged works are available...
...still found it easier to understand Stalin's Russia from Dostoevski's The Possessed. Nowhere had the causes of the fall of France been described with the completeness and power of Flaubert's Sentimental Education or Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Nothing the spokesmen for democracy said was as good as their quotations from democracy's founders, from Luther to Washington and Jefferson...