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According to Anthony Sampson's The Sovereign State of ITT, it isn't absolutely certain that International Telephones and Telegraph allowed its Latin American telephone lines to be used to send information to German submarines during World War II, although the friendship towards Hitler of the company's founder, Colonel Sosthenes Behn, makes it seem highly probable. There is no doubt, however, that the company owned 28 per cent of Focke-Wulf Aircraft, whose planes bombed American ships, which ITT direction finders used to evade German torpedoes. Although Behn maintained good relations with the Naxis during the war, through...
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. was founded in 1920 by Sosthenes Behn, who was born of Franco-Danish parents in the Virgin Islands and was educated in Corsica and Paris. With such a background, it is not difficult to see how Behn's buccaneering character developed. Starting out as a sugar broker, he got into telecommunications almost by accident. He and his brother Hernand bought a small, foundering telephone company in Puerto Rico. The brothers soon acquired another phone system in Cuba, moved on into Spain, and bought the international holdings of Western Electric...
...quite, disagreed one of the reviewers. Dame Rebecca West should know. She was Wells' mistress from 1912 to 1922 and is the mother of one of his sons, Novelist Anthony West. "As a general rule, it was he who was discarded," she wrote in the London Sunday Telegraph. A balky new fountain pen could quickly plunge him into a temper tantrum. "Scenes like this, and not exceptional and shocking depravity, accounted for the number of women in Wells' life...
...Protestant-dominated Unionist Party, led by former Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, swept the Protestant vote. Most Catholics supported the Social, Democratic and Labor Party (S.D.L.P.). Most disappointing, the moderate and non-sectarian Alliance Party finished a poor fourth, trailing even candidates of the Protestant extremists. Noted the Belfast Telegraph: "The people have spoken and their terms are uncompromising...
...Another, almost accidental victim of the affair was Conservative Columnist Peregrine Worsthorne, who was briefly suspended by the Daily Telegraph after he told a BBC interviewer that the British public "didn't give a f-" about the Lambton case. Worsthorne was soon back in print, but the paper advised him that for the next month he should not appear on television until after the bedtime of British children...