Word: delmer
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...experience was nothing new for Delmer. In 20 years of global reporting for Lord Beaverbrook, he has been expelled from Nazi Germany, Fascist Spain, Communist Czechoslovakia and Poland...
Illustrious Company. When the cops returned, they had the name straight. They handed Delmer a note: "According to a decision of the cabinet, you will leave Teheran within 24 hours of receiving this." The officers asked Delmer to sign a receipt. Angrily he wrote: "I have received the above order. I protest against. . . this outrageous violation of the freedom of the press and the United Nations Charter...
While the cops trudged off to check up, Delmer got off a flash to his London office...
COPS WAITING FOR ME STOP SEE YOU SOON. The Express broke open its last edition to splash a bannerline across Page One: PERSIA EXPELS DELMER...
...While Delmer was being served, Haig Nicholson, Reuters' veteran Middle East manager, got called out of a bridge game at the British colony's Teheran Club to be handed a similar order. Next day, the British ambassador demanded an explanation. He was told that a special press commission had tried and convicted Delmer of "vilifying and defaming the country," Nicholson of "changing the truth." Explained Prime Minister Mossadeq: "Of course, the two correspondents were not present at this trial, but I have no doubt that the verdict was amply justified...