Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long. Last week the Moscow radio significantly broke a story that began the middle of last month when Edouard Daladier, then French Premier, sent his Moscow Chargé d'Affaíres around to ask Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov about a not only objectionable but very queer telegram handed in at Paris for transmission to Moscow...
...Ambassador just writes out a telegram and sends it. This is done by embassy secretaries who code all important dispatches. It was certainly queer that somebody handed in at Paris an uncoded telegram signed Jacob Suritz, addressed to Joseph Stalin, and congratulating the Dictator upon having foiled "plans of the Anglo-French warmongers" and "sinister schemes of enemies of Socialism" by worsting Finland. Whoever sent that undiplomatic telegram into the teeth of French censorship knew the French Cabinet must inevitably demand the recall to Moscow of fallen Litvinoff's friend Suritz...
...October 1931 Karin was dying in Stockholm and Göring was at her bedside. A telegram came from Hitler saying that President von Hindenburg had consented to see him and asking Göring to go with him. When Göring arrived in Berlin he received word of Karin's death. Two years later, when Hitler was Chancellor and Göring was Prime Minister of Prussia, he held a State burial for her at Karinhall. Hitler walked beside the widower...
...glad to have your views and shall bear them in mind," read a telegram from Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. "I agree with you that the speech in question is dangerous, improper, and unpatriotic. I, too, favor keeping America out of war and have vigorously contended for this policy...
...Actor George M. Cohan, whose elopement with George Ronkin, accordion player at the Manhattan nightclub where she sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better...