Word: zedlitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Clyde Reed, 72, ranking Republican on the Post Office Committee, to demand how it was that private letters were read on the floor of Congress. He referred to the violet-scented correspondence between greying, blue-eyed Vivien Kellems, the Connecticut manufacturess of cable grips, and Count Frederick von Zedlitz, a Nazi engineer in Argentina. The letters had been read into the Congressional Record fortnight ago by Washington's New Dealing John M. Coffee (TIME, April...
...part of its work, the Office of Censorship excerpts such portions of foreign letters as it thinks "valuable in fighting the enemy." Such excerpts, supposedly highly confidential, are sent to other Government agencies. Plainly, someone in the Office of Censorship had slipped the juicier portions of the Kellems-von Zedlitz correspondence to Columnist Drew Pearson and Representative Coffee. Clyde Reed called for a full-dress Senate investigation. Not too gallantly, he added: "The letters may have been mushy, but they weren't seditious...
Vivien Kellems, Connecticut cable-grip manufacturess, would-be striker against Federal income taxes (TIME, Jan. 31) wrote to Buenos Aires' Count Frederick von Zedlitz in 1943 (according to Washington's solemn-faced Democratic Representative John Main Coffee), addressed him as "My Darling Boy," told him she had been promised a high place in international affairs by an astrologer. Added she: ". . . how could that be if I am not married to you?" Revealing a few additional morsels of her billets-doux to the House, Coffee remarked: ". . . the rules of etiquette and the spirit of fair play prevent me from...