Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Patrice Lumumba safely in jail, quieter times might presumably be expected in the Congo. Not so. To Military Boss Colonel Joseph Mobutu's headquarters came an alarming telegram from Stanleyville: DEMAND IMMEDIATE LIBERATION PRIME MINISTER LUMUMBA...
While the public demonstrations and frenzied bills have been ineffective, they have caused sparks bright enough to catch federal executive departments in their glow. Attorney General William P. Roger's telegram to Governor Davis warning that he would "use the full power of my office" against further obstruction to the court order, has been blatantly ignored. While a word from President Eisenhower himself might have added moral conviction to the stand taken by the Supreme Court, the President has repeated the pattern he followed in Little Rock: a reluctance to act firmly and quickly. Since he has left the question...
...Announced his reply to a telegram from President Eisenhower, who had invited Kennedy and his aides to meet with him and White House officers to discuss transition problems. Kennedy answered with a telegram: I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU AND AGAIN EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR YOUR COOPERATION. (Earlier, Kennedy had wired Ike: THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS HOPEFUL THAT YOUR LONG EXPERIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF YOUR COUNTRY CAN BE DRAWN UPON FURTHER IN THE YEARS TO COME.) Probable meeting date: right after Thanksgiving...
...official worried privately about "the men around Kennedy-they seem overexcited about Africa and Asia. There's no one with a close connection with the European problem." But the French generally welcomed what they thought would be new initiatives from Washington, and Charles de Gaulle fired off a telegram that began "Welcome, Dear Partner...
Soundings. In the wake of the Quemoy-Matsu debate, Formosan officials even wore Nixon buttons on Election Day, and President Chiang Kai-shek drafted a congratulatory telegram for Nixon; next day, the officials talked with forced cheer about Kennedy's support of the Eisenhower position. Perhaps the most unblushing reaction came in South Viet Nam, where just before last week's coup, Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau showed newsmen a copy of Kennedy's book, The Strategy of Peace, flipped it open to page 63 and pointed to a passage he had underlined in red, calling...