Word: cablegram
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...Smit & Sons were solemn last week. Amsterdam and their home office were in Nazi hands. So, too, they feared, were snow-haired Johan Smit, head of the firm, and Joop, the second of his three partner-sons, who was with the Dutch Army. Suddenly came a cablegram, signed by Johan's oldest son, Jan: how soon could Smit's Manhattan office get and ship 500 diamond-cutting saws to London...
...London the British Foreign Office promptly placed on view the cablegram from Sir Howard Kennard to Viscount Halifax on which the latter based his assurance to Germany. Wired British Ambassador Sir Howard: "Colonel Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister, most grateful for the proposed reply to Herr Hitler, authorizes His Majesty's Government to inform German Government that Poland is ready to enter at once into direct discussion with Germany...
...London office of the New York Times one day last week a little bearded man stood glaring at a cablegram. Twenty hours earlier the British liner Athenia, with 300-odd American war refugees aboard, had been torpedoed off the coast of Scotland. In the dead of night, as the news reached London, correspondents, scenting the biggest German "atrocity" story since the sinking of the Lusitania, had descended on cable companies, roused up nodding operators to file their dispatches. It was now late afternoon, and the message in Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall's hand (from his home office) read...
...examination of the J. P. Morgan & Co., purchasing agents of Great Britain during the World War, we developed documentary evidence which explains the in evitable cablegram of Ambassador Page of March 5, 1917, which stated that ". . . I think that the pressure of this approaching crisis has gone beyond the ability of the Morgan financial agency for the British and French governments. Perhaps our going to war is the only way in which our present prominent trade position can be maintained and panic averted." Documents that explain why our Ambassador in London was placed in the position of extending that advice...
...Sascha" Seversky's hotel went a cablegram: he had been fired...