Word: radiograms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Implication. Urged on by a radiogram from MacArthur, the commission closed the trial a little more than a month after it began. By neat timing, they handed down their verdict on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. They found Yamashita guilty as charged, sentenced him to hang...
David Low sent me the following radiogram: ". . . Greetings to my fellow artists in the Society of Illustrators. Good wishes for success of their efforts towards rehabilitation of war veterans. Would say that we drawers of pictures have easiest means of communicating ideas, therefore we have direct educative responsibility in helping our two democracies to grow up in sympathy and friendship. We could make a start to better understanding by ... expressing the fundamental truth that in these days the common man of Britain and of America is pretty much the same .fellow with the same standards and the same wish...
...down the U.S. last week, in large cities and small towns, many a Roman Catholic priest mailed or took similar tidings to anxious families of men missing in action. Sample message: "The Apostolic Delegate of the Holy See has been requested by radiogram from the Cardinal Secretary of State, to inform the John A. Doe family that Corporal John B. Doe is a prisoner of war in Camp...
Only notifications of prisoners' whereabouts are sent by radiogram. Messages between prisoners and families go by ordinary post. A member of the family may reply through the Vatican by using a special form. These messages must contain only family chitchat, cannot exceed 25 words, must not mention military topics, weather, geographical locations. Incoming & outgoing messages clear through local diocesan offices, enter or leave the country by Washington's Apostolic Delegation. There, under the supervision of Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, ten to 24 seminarians are on duty to receive and dispatch the communications. All messages pass through censorship...
Chennault read the report, sent General Bissell a radiogram which said in effect: "Perhaps we don't dress right up here. But we have met the enemy every day against terrific odds and we have yet to lose a battle...