Word: tass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intuitive strategy that he either resigned or was booted into retirement. In 1943, Field Marshal General Walther von Brauchitsch was said to be the candidate of Wehrmacht leaders to replace Hitler, seemed to have excellent chances of becoming the German Badoglio. In late August, Russia's Tass news agency, quoting "Berlin military circles," reported Brauchitsch poisoned. By last week, rumors grew that he was dead...
...Britain propose to live with Russia? Joseph Stalin has attended no Roosevelt-Churchill conferences. His absence this time was painfully emphasized last week by a dispatch from the official Russian news agency Tass stating he had not been invited. (Actually Stalin was informed the moment the conference was scheduled: in diplomatic usage an invitation is never extended unless it is certain to be accepted...
There are some signs that the Party may respond further. In Moscow recently a new book by ex-Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanovski explaining U.S. war motives was published, with a first printing of 15,000 copies. The head of Tass, the news agency by which all foreign news is obtained for Russian papers, has for some time been getting up at 6 every morning to study English. He has had correspondents in Geneva, Stockholm. London, Teheran, New York, Ankara and Chungking...
...Soviet note conferring Russian citizenship on all former inhabitants of East Poland, the Polish Government in Exile last week denounced the Polish Soviet Treaty of July, 1941 as unilateral and intimated that it expects Poland's post-war eastern frontier to be restored as of September, 1939. "Tass," Russia's official news agency, answered by charging Premier Sikorski and his refugee cabinet with the "imperialistic" desire to hold against their will the four million Russians put under Polish rule by a peace treaty of 1921. The Soviet organ also leveled an accusation at the Poles for their "Fascist-minded...
...Moscow's Tass said that Berlin had given Vichy permission to reinforce its North African garrisons with three new infantry divisions, a tank regiment, two artillery regiments and one air group...