When Lord Lovat led a massively destructive commando raid on the Lofoten Islands in 1941, he sent a telegram from the local post office to one A Hitler in Berlin: "LAST SPEECH SAID GERMAN TROOPS WOULD MEET BRITISH WHEREVER THEY LANDED STOP WHERE ARE THEY".
Thursday, 5 November 2009
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An amusing columnette in the Guardian on the (slight) return of telegrams, terse little haiku which can overturn a life. My favourite of the ones quoted is childish but funny:
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