"Then I got another one, and another one, and another one — I was telling everyone in the store, 'Hey, you've gotta read this.' " The early dispatches were unsentimental but alive with emotion, often laced with bits of dark humor about, say, a Dutch "nurse from hell," who "looks like she was sired from stick insects".
"Then I got another one, and another one, and another one—I was telling everyone in the store, 'Hey, you've gotta read this.' " The early dispatches were unsentimental but alive with emotion, often laced with bits of dark humor about, say, a Dutch "nurse from hell," who "looks like she was sired from stick insects".
Louis XIV personally directed French foreign policy and read the dispatches of his ambassadors himself.
I read the dispatches and one mentioned there was a scar on the man's right hand.
"To my delight," he wrote, Col. [ Benjamin S. ] E[welltaught me the cipher & the pass-word, or key-word, to read the dispatches that came..
In 16th-century London, for instance, a French ambassador paid another diplomat's secretary 60 crowns a month to read the dispatches to which the secretary had access.
He welcomed foreign envoys, delivered official speeches, drafted treaties, read the dispatches exchanged between the king and Wolsey, and answered in the king's name.
It is illuminating to read the dispatches by British soldiers themselves, as extracted by the head censor, Capt JB Gibson, now stored at the Public Record Office.
In the past couple of days, in my role as D.P. (designated prognosticator), I've read the dispatches about both candidates decamping to the West for a couple of days of intensive prep.
When you read the dispatches from Iraq, or the online diaries many soldiers keep, or the e-mail they send home, you quickly sense how hard it is to commute between these two universes.
