telegram

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The papers also reveal Downing Street was forced to apologise after then-Prime Minister John Major's birthday telegram to the Queen Mother in 1994 was addressed in an "improper manner".

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

His family had to wait almost two weeks before a telegram arrived, addressed to his mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

Posters in Detroit depicting a military man resembling Hitler were ordered, by telegram, to be destroyed.

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

The video was shared by the Russian Sota telegram channel.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024

At last, Winston Churchill, who was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time, sent a telegram: PROCEED.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong