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...cablegram to Vienna may get a student a free vacation in Austria this summer, Student Council member David L. Stark '53, announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Must Cable Vienna for Free Trip | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...last word from Betty Graham to the folks at home. Last fortnight John Graham got a terse cablegram from the Peking Ministry of Health: Betty had died "unexpectedly." The Communist radio announced last week that she had been buried "in the sanctuary of eternal repose" in the Western Hills overlooking the ancient city of Peking. Said John Graham : 'She was coming home - and she didn't come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Coming Home | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...side, the petulance reached a sorry point a fortnight ago when six Newark war veterans sent Prime Minister Clement Attlee a cablegram: "Just in case Mr. Chamberlain didn't leave you his, we are forwarding you an umbrella. It may come in handy in Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Troubled Rock | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Cease-fire Commissioners Rau, Pearson and Entezam fixed their eyes on the door's crack, decided to keep trying this week. They reported that they had sent a cablegram to Peking, offering to meet the Chinese Reds any place they chose, presumably even in their own capital. They still hoped that Wu had not given his side's final answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: No Cease-Fire | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...purge trial back home, announced a discovery: Soviet Russia had robbed Czechoslovakia of her independence. Houdek sent his $1,100 passage money back to the Czech delegation and issued a long statement of resignation at U.N. headquarters. Insisting that he was still a "socialist", he sent Joseph Stalin a cablegram, quoting Lenin at him to prove that Stalin really shouldn't be so beastly to Czechoslovakia. He also dispatched a third message, to President Truman, asking asylum in the U.S. for himself, his wife and two daughters. "I [do] so," he wrote, "in order to protest to the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Neck, Not the Heart | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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