Quite right. "Gentlemen don't read each other's mail."
>>...like they’d never pull all telegrams sent from the USA.
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>Quite right. “Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail.”
Which brings up a question: would a gentleman ever work for the current government?
Would a gentleman work for the government at all? (George Washington observed that government *is* force.)
lol According to the book “The Puzzle Palace” they routinely did just that, even after being ordered not to. Started during WWII and continued until Western Union went mostly electronic and stopped making carbons (and NSA of course stopped reading our mail then).