A veteran diplomat with an extraordinary knowledge of Russian language, history and literature, Kennan recalls how, at the time of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he penned a private note to a State Department official, expressing the hope that `` never would we associate ourselves with Russian purposes in the areas of eastern Europe beyond her own boundaries ''.

The official Austrian dictionary, " Das Österreichische Wörterbuch ", gives grammar and spelling rules defining the official language.

For many years, Austria had a special form of the language for official government documents.

For most speakers ( even native speakers ), this form of the language is generally difficult to understand, as it contains many highly specialised terms for diplomatic, internal, official, and military matters.

This is primarily due to the widespread usage of the Aramaic language as both a lingua franca and the official language of the Neo-Assyrian, and its successor, the Achaemenid Empire.

The use of a single official language, which modern scholarship has dubbed Official Aramaic or Imperial Aramaic, can be assumed to have greatly contributed to the astonishing success of the Achaemenids in holding their far-flung empire together for as long as they did.

Though the U. S. federal government has no official language, English is the common language used by the federal government and is considered the de facto language of the United States because of its widespread use.

Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

Under Seleucid rule ( 330 BC – approximately 150 BC ), however, Aramaic gave way to Greek as the official administrative language.

Aramaic was marginalised as an official language, but remained spoken in both Assyria and Babylonia by the general populace.

It has the widest geographical and racial distribution of all the official languages of South Africa, and is widely spoken and understood as a second or third language.

Belize ( formerly British Honduras ) is a country located on the north eastern coast of Central America and it is the only country in the area where English is the official language, although Creole and Spanish are more commonly spoken.

The language has official status in those territories that are within the Basque Autonomous Community, where it is spoken and promoted heavily, but only partially in Navarre.

It was a language of rich literary activity and the official administration language of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

It was influenced by its non-Slavic neighbors in the Balkan language area ( mostly grammatically ) and later also by Turkish, which was the official language of the Ottoman Empire, in the form of the Ottoman Turkish language, mostly lexically.

On the face of it, it is because he employs deductive techniques alien to official police routine.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

This is an official preliminary contest of the Miss America Pageant held each September in Atlantic City.

The `` C '' club is composed of the men of the College who have won an official letter in Carleton athletics.

Be sure that this information is reasonably official and not just an unfounded opinion.

We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

Brooklyn College is distinctive for not having an official drinking place.

A more official representative is the Secretary of the Interior.

Even then, as you go into the house oppressed by the knowledge that something is cooking and that your house has passed under this unaccountable, official control, could you go on forgetting that you still had that ridiculous hat on your head and you were still carrying that childish horn in your hand??

But the simple truth is that higher education has never really been an official American Catholic project ; ;

Baseball commissioner Ford Frick has ruled that Ruth's record will remain official unless it is broken in 154 games.

and one U.S. official said: `` The key question now is which side picks up the phone first ''.

A top American official, after a look at Europe's factories, thinks the U.S. is in a `` very serious situation '' competitively.

This is often done in advance of the update of reporting databases and / or the issuance of official documents.

The standardized form of Austrian German for official texts and schools is defined by the Austrian Dictionary (), published under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

Schweitzer concludes that the 1st century theology, originating in the lifetimes of those who first followed Jesus, is both incompatible with, and far removed from, those beliefs later made official by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 CE.

The official name of the celebration in the Roman Rite liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church is " The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed ".

* 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.

* 1962 – The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.

There are many official terms that differ in Austrian German from their usage in most parts of Germany.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

On 3 October 1990, the two parts of Germany were reunified as the Federal Republic of Germany, and Berlin again became the official German capital.

The President of Germany, whose functions are mainly ceremonial under the German constitution, has his official residence in Schloss Bellevue.

In 1975 it was renamed again to, or ' DIN ' and is recognized by the German government as the official national-standards body, representing German interests at the international and European levels.

The phrase was to Ludendorff's liking, and he let it be known among the general staff that this was the ' official ' version, and so it was disseminated throughout German society.

The Western Allies ( the USA, Britain and France ) never formally acknowledged the authority of the East German government to govern East Berlin ; the official Allied protocol recognized only the authority of the Soviet Union in East Berlin in accordance with the occupation status of Berlin as a whole.

From 1954 to 1990, the 17th of June was an official holiday in West Germany to commemorate the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, even with the name " Day of the German Unity ".

1654 civilians were killed according to the official Basque figures, but the German sources report a round figure of 300 civilians killed in the bombing, according to the German Bundeswehr Magazine ( published in April 2007, page 94 ).

East Germany's culture was strongly influenced by communism and particularly Stalinism and was described by East German psychoanalyst Hans-Joachim Maaz in 1990 as having produced a " Congested Feeling " among East Germans as a result of the East German state's goal to protect people from dangers of deviant cultural influence and dangers of popular expression deviating from the state's ideals through enforcing official ideals through physical and psychological repression of these tendencies via its institutions, particularly the Stasi.

The official name was Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic ), usually abbreviated as DDR.

So the media controlled by the East German government emphasised the use of the official name, DDR, while West Germans, western media and statesmen may have used other names such as Middle Germany, emphasising the location of East Germany in the centre of pre-1937 Germany.

The Poles were subjected to harassment in the fields of education, economic activity and the administration ; German was declared to be the only official language, but in practice the Poles only adhered more closely to their traditions.

Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg ), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.

Italian is the least spoken among the major three official languages of Switzerland ( the others being German and French ), and the language has seen a modest decline since the 1970s.

The official Soviet archival records do not contain comprehensive figures for some categories of victims, such as those of ethnic deportations or of German population transfers in the aftermath of World War II.

* 1900 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi official ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Karl Hanke, German Nazi official ( b. 1903 )

At the same time, Ribbentrop arranged for members of the Frontkämpferbund, the official German World War I veterans ' group, to visit Britain and France to meet veterans there.

As The Omani presence continued in Zanzibar and Pemba until the 1964 revolution, but the official Omani Arab presence in Kenya was checked by German and British seizure of key ports and creation of crucial trade alliances with influential local leaders in the 1880s.

In late summer 1943, the SIS provided the GRU with an official report of the activities of German agents in Bulgaria and Romania, soon to be invaded by the Red Army.