Word: cablegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was a far more noncommittal gesture than Woodrow Wilson's cablegram to Emperor Franz Josef on Aug. 4, 1914, offering "to act in the interest of European peace." Yet to the increasingly numerous U. S. sympathizers with the Czechs, it was still a gesture. England, France and South America applauded it, Czechoslovakia welcomed it. Upon the one man whom it would do any good to move it had less effect. As the Cabinet convened this week to discuss the deepening European crisis, Adolf Hitler's reply to Washington was a lengthy lecture restating, in more didactic language...
Tail of Efficiency Expert Bedaux's meteoric career across U. S. front pages last week was a cablegram couched in politely medieval salutations and released to the press by Arthur Kudner, Inc. Said the cablegram: "Sire: I respectfully sug gest and in your behalf implore that you relieve me completely from all my duties in connection with your American tour. I remain, Sire, your devoted friend, Charles E. Bedaux...
...mostly letterhead, its secretary being its founder and sole member, one Carlos Palacio, a Colombian. Partisans for a U. S. pope are not hard to find,* but Secretary Palacio had no particular man in mind, nor any other definite plan. He expected no answer to his cablegram, got none. In Vatican City Pope Pius XI, prayerful and thankful that he had been spared to pass his 79th Easter week, his 15th as Pontiff, had more important things to do than trade views with Señor Palacio...
...naked in a bathtub for nine hours during a Hollywood film-shooting, had been shot as a radical spy by the Whites. This made big news. Rosita's picture was splashed over the world's press. At week's end a Hollywood friend sent a cautious cablegram to Segovia saying she had heard that Rosita had been in "a serious accident." Back came a cablegram signed "Rosita" saying, "I am well. Fondest greetings." It seemed that Senorita Diaz had scooped the finest publicity of her career, that Generalissimo Franco had no designs on her. On other film...
This week the New York Times blossomed with a full-page advertisement featuring a cablegram from Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine: "We appeal to American Jewry to share the undaunted but calm courage of the Jewish community of Palestine and to strengthen their efforts by contributing generously to the funds of the United Palestine Appeal. . . . The Jewish community is behaving admirably despite the trying provocation...