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Repeatedly urged to withdraw their names by letter, telegram, and personal envoy from Rockefeller, the delegates decided to stand fast and ignore their candidate's wishes...
...Purple Code. The World War I episode concerns the notorious telegram sent by the German Foreign Minister, Arthur Zimmermann, to his envoy in Mexico; in code it stated Germany's intention of opening unlimited submarine warfare against the U.S. and offered various bribes to get Mexico's support. Decoded by British cryptanalysts, the telegram provided President Wilson with telling evidence to support the U.S. declaration of war on Germany...
...Open Telegram...
Martin Peretz, instructor in Social Studies, read an open telegram from Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) during the second half of the teach-in held in Lowell...
...telegram read in part: "The American people have been asked to support the tragic escalation of the war in Vietnam and are being asked to support it definitively by their vote in 1968. But at no time, I believe, has the administration come forth with a clear and rational justification of why the Vietnam war should be supported...