Word: telegraf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diplomatic Echo. It takes Annedore Leber, a nervy, auburn-haired woman of 44, to jar the Soviet delegate from his posturing. She is a Social Democrat, an editor of the newspaper Telegraf; her husband gave his life in the underground conspiracy against the Nazis. Her blue eyes are hot with anger, and she is impatient with all this petty squabbling over package shipments and machine removals when all the world knows what is at stake: "I want to raise this debate to the level commensurate with the gravity of the crisis we face." She does so bluntly: "The people...
...Tagesspiegel is not Berlin's biggest daily (the Russian-licensed Tägliche Rundschau sells 800,000 copies, the British-licensed Telegraf 600,000), but it is the best-balanced. It is not pre-censored, follows no party line. Thus, it has readers in all zones. Written in prosy, pedantic German, it runs unemotional editorials that occasionally criticize vacillating U.S. policy. Reger's own articles, like himself, are stolid, learned and long-winded. His chief troubles are those of all the German press: newsprint shortage (most of it comes from the Russian zone), and newsmen who are untainted...
...This week I read that TIME will be sold once more in Berlin-together with the Tägliche Rundschau, the Telegraf, the Kurier, and the Tagesspiegel. The results should be interesting. Perhaps some explanations will be in order, so that the 'New Germany' won't mistake a critique of President Truman as the first step by certain political elements to start a 'putsch' or news about Russian officers being arrested somewhere as the beginning of a new war. Here, therefore, are some comments that may help in reading TIME...