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To: jacknhoo

Who was the American diplomat who prior to WWII stated that ‘gentlemen do not read other gentleman’s mail’ (or something like that)?


22 posted on 10/05/2022 5:38:31 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

“Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.”

This was Secretary of State Henry Stimson’s post-Pearl Harbor justification to close the State Department’s code-breaking office in 1929.


26 posted on 10/05/2022 5:50:27 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion, )
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