The incident provided the excuse for a trial of strength that was sought by both France and Prussia, but because of Bismarck's dishonest editing of the Ems telegram, it was France that was the first to declare war.
This telegram stated: "It is known that all bourgeois intelligence services use methods of physical influence against representatives of the socialist proletariat.
According to the state-run news agency, SANA, the telegram said: "It is very important to adopt the principle of dialogue in relations with countries based on respect and mutual interest".
The subpoena request included "telegrams," because it is apparently the 19th century.
In a post on his Telegram channel yesterday, Durov said the authorities had "imposed a block on Telegram", adding that it is "not clear whether permanent or temporary".
King noted at the top of the telegram that it was "to be answered," but his response has not been located.
The review is long — it comes in at eighty per cent of Kennan's Long Telegram — but it's an important piece to read, in part just because it reminds us how seriously our politicians once took foreign affairs.
(Young faces the camera — eye contact, of a kind. On the laptop, his image breaks apart, and his voice burbles. There is something warm and archaic about Skype's flaws. A Skype call can feel like a telegram. "It's so fragile," Demme says. "It's sweet". ) J.D.: Neil, I'd better leave, because Beth Henley and four wonderful actresses are waiting for me downstairs.
Some of the other options: "If you were seven and I were nine, I'd say 'Please be my Valentine' "; "Please save my heart from being wrecked, send Cupid's answer to me collect"; "Love may be the last word in some telegrams but it's first in this one".
Richard Garland of the New York World-Telegram wrote, "It's been many a night since so glowing a performance has brightened the Broadway scene".
