Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Harold Macmillan hastily handed down an order forbidding British officials to reply to Adenauer. But the Tory Daily Telegraph, under no such restraint, counterattacked with an editorial called "Are We Beastly to the Germans?" Growled the Telegraph: "In suggesting the existence of an anti-German conspiracy, Dr. Adenauer was very wide of the mark. No conspiracy is needed, since anti-German feeling exists without being artificially inspired...
Fact is, as the Telegraph suggested, that the postwar alliance between Britain and West Germany has been at best "a shotgun marriage" imposed by the Soviet threat. Adenauer himself has never forgotten that British occupation authorities fired him as mayor of Cologne in 1945 for "insufficient display of energy." And when Harold Macmillan failed to consult him before setting off to Moscow last month, all Adenauer's suppressed distrust of Britain was reawakened. Bitterly, Adenauer concluded that Macmillan was preparing to offer Khrushchev de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, thereby selling out a vital West German diplomatic position...
...movies, a new rash of generals' memoirs and war-adventure tales, the unearthing last week of a live German bomb beside the Thames near .Waterloo Station, all keep alive old memories. Some might acknowledge that the moment was not propitious for old grudges, but the Tory Telegraph, for one, was adamant: "Dr. Adenauer's verbal explosion, tactless as it may seem, has the virtue of forcing both countries to face unwelcome truths while there is still time to moderate the harm they...
...arrival was the capper. He snarled "Nothing to say" to reporters greeting him at the airport, threatened (his weight: 140 Ibs.) a photographer at the Melbourne Stadium, where he appeared: "Take another picture and I'll ram that camera down your throat. You stink." Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "Frankie plays hard to get-but who wants him?" The answer, obviously, was Ava; she haunted his dressing room at the stadium, a front-row seat when he sang "Why not take all of me?" and his suite at his hotel. But bodyguards were always outside to intimidate rubbernecks. When...
...telephoned with such enthusiasm in the first quarter that it helped American Telephone & Telegraph raise its per-share earnings from $2.76 last year to $2.81. The Bell System, announced President Fred Kappel, added about 725,000 new telephones in the quarter, 66% more than in the first three months of 1958. The telegraph wires were also humming; Western Union announced a first-quarter profit of 55? a share...