Word: telegram
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First hint that Robeson would be late the Young Progressives, the sponsoring organization, received a telegram from their New York office saying that he would arrive at Logan Airport at 4:10 and at Emerson D 40 minutes later. A call to New York by the Y.P.'s at 1 p.m. confirmed this--Robeson had had trouble getting an early reservation...
Greatly Exaggerated. In Rochester, N.Y., Private John B. Smart, home on furlough, signed for a telegram that reported him missing in action in Korea...
...York's World-Telegram & Sun was boiling mad. What made it mad was the sidetracking by the United Nations of the U.S. resolution to brand the Chinese Communists as aggressors. The World-Telly blamed this "humiliating defeat" on the State Department's "political ineptitude" in failing to keep on its side nations "presumed to be our friends," i.e., Britain, France...
...growing number of the Canadian people." The Vancouver Sun agreed: "Most Canadians share his complaint." Toronto's Globe and Mail said: "It was refreshing to have an outstanding business leader facing the facts, realistically appraising them and then putting his views clearly on the record." The Toronto Telegram called the speech "the loudest, clearest alarm bell that any Canadian has sounded since the outbreak of the Korean...
...Chinese Christians," they said in a telegram to Mao Tse-tung, "have joined enthusiastically in the great movement . . . now spreading among the entire Chinese people. We assure you that we will follow your leadership and contribute whatever we have to defeat these imperialist provocations, safeguard world peace and the security of our country...