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Asahi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106.
Hikurashi Heights 6-50, Hikurashi-Katsushiki,
C. P. O. Box 497, 4th Floor,
East-West Associates, Ltd.,
Mr. John L. Stegmaier,

Executive Assistant
Lawrence S. Eaglerburke

Sincerely,

I value and always welcome.

On behalf of the Secretary, I
want you to know that your views are
valued and always welcome.

are very helpful.
as well as your concrete recommendations
to the 18th. Your general operations
interesting and thoughtful letter of Sep-
thank you personally for your extremely
The Secretary has asked me to

Dear Mr. Stegmaier:

November 15, 1973

Stegmaier, John T. 11/15/73

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September 18, 1973

The Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C.
U. S. A.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

The press reports that you have been meeting with a wide variety of State Department officers to get their views as to what is wrong with the Department and what to do about it. Having agonized over the Department's failings for 22 years as a Foreign Service Officer I'd like to put in my two bits.

President Kennedy dubbed the Department "a bowl of jelly"; George Ball called it "a fudge factory." Both expressions are descriptive and richly deserved. The trouble is that they reflect no understanding whatever as to why the Department consistently operates at such a low level of performance.

The best explanation is that intellectual honesty took leave of the Department round about Senator McCarthy's heyday and never has returned. In it's place we've had twenty years of mediocrity born of pussy-footing and conformism.

Several years ago a senior U.S. diplomat epitomized the situation when he said that in any Embassy the job of all subordinate officers is "to please the Ambassador." Recently one of the Department's leading figures expressed an identical philosophy in hortatory remarks to new FSOs. This individual said that an FSO should consider himself "the servant of the servants of the people" and went on to stress that discipline is the prime touchstone of a career in the Service.

I find it difficult to express the depth of my disagreement with remarks like these. For in my experience excessive stress on keeping in step with the boss has played a decisive part in reducing the Department to an essentially ineffective agency.

How, then, do you get things turned around? How do you infuse new energy, assurance and drive into an organization of transcendent potentialities which has suffered for years from arrested development?

You strike the needed spark, I think, by endorsing the only kind of ground rules that can vitalize an institution with the Department's special functional character.

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By this I mean that strong performance by the Department demands a body of people who have developed essentially *intellectual* skills of the utmost rarity. But these skills can achieve full, constructive impact only in an environment conducive to free inquiry and expression.

In my view, therefore, any Secretary of State who wants to get the most out of his subordinates should run the Department basically like a great university. He should let it be known, in other words, that truth and untrammeled freedom of expression are to be the guiding rules of conduct within the family of the State Department and he should never compromise with that policy.

Perhaps you will object that President Kennedy and even Secretary Rogers had the same thought in mind in referring to concepts like "constructive dissent" and that their exhortations never did much to improve the situation. This is true. But unfortunately both men failed to take the indispensable practical steps needed to activate public servants.

A President or a Secretary can make himself blue in the face addressing inspirational pronouncements to government employees. But they will not begin to respond until the substance of the words have been drilled firmly into the documents that define how they must behave in order to succeed.

Three documents count the most: 1. The one that sets down the individual's basic terms of employment. (For FSOs this used to take the form of a letter from the Director General.) 2. The Performance Rating Form with its accompanying instructions to Rating Officers. 3. The Precepts addressed to the Promotion Boards each year.

The language of these documents predetermines how the Department's people will conduct themselves and thus exerts a telling influence on performance by the Department as a whole. If the documents attach too high a value to blind loyalty they create the basis for an agency rotted out by conformism. If they attach great importance to creative thinking, intellectual honesty and the like they set the stage for an agency characterized by vibrancy, strong morale and, with all of this, the highest kind of loyalty.

This happy condition can emerge, however, only if the key documents I've mentioned express a clear, unequivocal commitment by the Department to recognize and reward those of its people who display these qualities and to penalize those who fail to display them.

The State Department must undertake another fundamental commitment to its people before they will begin to perform effectively. It must guarantee that they will never be put in jeopardy, defenseless, for the judgements they reach and the views they put on record in the course of discharging their responsibilities. This means, for example, that the Department must assure its people incontrovertibly that they will never have to testify before a new McCarthy Committee except under orderly procedures which include counsel provided by the Department.

In years past it would have been politically impossible to put this second commitment into effect. Perhaps the current wrangle over separation of powers offers a timely opportunity to get it done.

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I would particularly stress that the concept of an "open" Department applies only to its internal operations. It does not suggest that the Department's people should throw normal prudence to the winds and begin conducting themselves with total candor in dealings with other U.S. agencies and other governments. Nor does it mean that they would be free to slip secrets to the press or the Congress or to carry on public campaigns at their posts of assignment against some aspect of U.S. foreign policy. On the contrary, I think that the Department's employees everywhere in the world should operate under the most rigorous standards of security and propriety. I believe they would accept such standards all the more willingly if they knew that they and their colleagues faced no restraints in expressing their views on U.S. foreign policy and, indeed, were expected to do so as a matter of official duty.

Obviously, the final word on foreign policy rests with the President and the Secretary. To be worth their salt, however, the Department's experts must be prepared constantly to do battle for their professional convictions about U.S. foreign policy and, if necessary, to carry the fight to the highest levels of the policy-making process. This, of course, demands their meaningful participation in the formulation of high policy as well as in its execution. I'm convinced that this will work only with the kind of strong, confident Department I've been talking about.

It is staggering to ponder what differences a virile, achieving State Department might have made to the course of events over recent years. Taking one illustration, my guess is that close to 90% of the Department's far eastern specialists would have declared against the China containment policy -- or would have favored a variant of it -- if they had been able to bring their true opinions to bear when the policy was being developed and if they had dared to do so. If I am at all correct on this it means that an effective State Department at that fateful time and in the years that followed might have spared the nation one of the greatest tragedies of its history.

Intellectual freedom in the State Department would spell bad news for the opportunists: They flourish far better under existing conditions. In contrast, the change would bring out of the shadows some of the Department's best people. Equally important, it would attract to the Department many able young people who shun it today on moral grounds.

In closing, I see no reason why a spectacular public announcement would be needed to launch the proposed changes. Even if the whole thing were done quietly I'm sure the troops all up and down the line would soon get the message. They've been waiting for it a long time.

Having told you how to do your job I can now return to the problem of making a living on dollar-based income in a yen economy.

Godspeed in your endeavors!

JLS/sn

THE MILITARY CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

EIC

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS

7758 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 401 • Washington, D. C. 20014 • Code 301-657-4077

1925 — The MCA's Fiftieth Year — 1975

LEONARD F. STEGMAN
President

SIMEON KOBRINETZ
Senior Vice President

ROBERT F. OVERMAN
Treasurer

S. DAVID CHAMBERS
Secretary

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

1975
PAUL G. SCHADE
ROSS H. TROWER

1976
M. DOUGLAS BLAIR
J. BARRY LONERGAN

1977
DAVID M. HUMPHREYS
GEORGE J. STAFFORD

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
EDWARD L. R. ELSON '75
M. S. ERNSTMEYER '76
ROY M. TERRY '77

PRESIDENT EMERITUS
PATRICK J. RYAN

AREA VICE PRESIDENTS
WILIAM F. EMERY
JOSEPH T. O'BRIEN
ROBERT J. PLOCKI
PAUL H. LIONBERGER
JAMES E. SHAW
WESLEY J. BUCK
SIMON H. SCOTT, JR.

EX-OFFICIO
R. W. RICKER
PHILIP L. GREEN

KARL BENNETT JUSTUS
Executive Director
Editor, Military Chaplain

2 April 1975

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

We stand on the threshold of America's Bicentennial. The year 1975 is a significant year in many ways. I am proud to serve as president of MCA this year because, among other things, it marks the Association's fiftieth year. Additionally, as a chaplain, I am happy to be on active duty during the two-hundredth anniversary of the Army and Navy Chaplaincies.

The Military Chaplains Association was founded in 1925 and chartered by the Congress of the United States on September 20, 1950, Public Law 972, during the Eighty-first Congress.

Both in the Association's Articles of Incorporation and Constitution, its purpose, in part, reads "...to uphold the Constitution of the United States; and to promote Justice, Peace, and Good Will." This purpose has been steadfastly pursued and accomplished.

Representing some ten-thousand Army, Navy, Air Force, Veterans Administration, and Civil Air Patrol Chaplains; active, reserve, and retired; and crossing all denominational lines, the hallmark of the MCA is in its ecumenicity. This organization is one of a kind.

We as clergy-citizens are cognizant of the manifold problems confronting our country at home and abroad. We also see anew the importance of your position, responsibility, and task -- to serve the best interest of citizens in statesmanship and to maintain a personal integrity in the loneliness of leadership that will renew and restore the people's faith in government. To this end, we as an Association, and I as its president -- want you to know that you and all of our national leaders are daily in our prayers. As we fulfill our role as military chaplains, we stand behind you and pledge to continue this support.

It is our fond hope that you will view us as a team member in this effort to strengthen the moral fibre of America.

1 Enclosure

Chartered by the United States Congress

HOW it is SUPPORTED

MCA's Sources of Funds are:

* Annual Membership dues
* $15 regular membership
* $25 contributing membership

* Life Membership, $175 or more

* Sponsors, $1,000 or more

* Designated offerings through Chaplains' Funds

* Donors: direct contributions from individuals or their private foundations; business firms and/or their corporate foundations.

MCA is a non-profit agency. Membership dues, and all special gifts and contributions to the Association are deductible from income taxes. The MCA derives no financial support from the Government though Chartered by the U.S. Congress.

Your active participation and support is enlisted for this unique organization.

Make your check payable to:

1974-75 OFFICERS

Leonard F. Stegman
*President*

Simeon Kobrinetz
*Senior Vice President*

S. David Chambers
*Secretary*

Robert F. Overman
*Treasurer*

Karl Bennet Justus
Executive Director—Editor, *Military Chaplain*

"LET'S COME ALIVE IN '75—FOR MCA"

THE MILITARY
CHAPLAINS
ASSOCIATION
of the
United States of America

Chartered by the
United States Congress
September 20, 1950—
Public Law 792

IT IS COMMITTED

to
"God and Country," and to
the highest interests of
the Military Chaplaincy

"The Voice of the Military Chaplaincy"

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
7758 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.
Suite 401
Washington, D.C. 20014

301-657-4077

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# What is MCA?

The Military Chaplains Association of the USA, representing approximately 10,000 chaplains, including reserve, retired and former chaplains, is the professional association for military chaplains of all religious faiths, in all branches of the Armed Forces and the Veterans Administration, and Civil Air Patrol.

At the heart of the Chaplaincy

THE MILITARY CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (MCA)
(Prepared by Philip L. Green)

## MCA's Stated Purposes:

"Humbly invoking the assistance of Almighty God, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: 'To safeguard and strengthen the forces of faith and morality of our nation; to perpetuate and to deepen the bonds of understanding and friendship of our military service; to preserve our spiritual interest and influence in all members and veterans of the armed forces; to uphold the Constitution of the United States; and to promote Justice, Peace and Good Will.'"

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# FOR THE CHAPLAINS

Often asked, "Is MCA a 'lobby' on Capitol Hill for Chaplains?", the answer is NO. Chartered by the Congress of the United States, tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Service Code, MCA cannot be a registered "lobby"

Nevertheless, MCA has "listening posts" on "the Hill" to keep informed on legislation affecting Chaplains.

When situations demand representation, the MCA makes its position known to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, to DOD, or the Service Secretaries involved.

## PROFESSIONAL GROWTH

THE MCA has long been recognized as the "professional" organization for the military clergy, the only one of its kind; the only Association in which chaplains of the Army, Navy, Air Force, VA, and CAP experience interpersonal and inter-professional relationships.

As a result of suggestions from the field, meetings with the Armed Forces Chaplains Board, and much thought by the Executive Committee, an emphasis is being placed on "Professional Growth."

Ch (COL) Edward L. R. Elson, USA, Ret, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, has long maintained that "the very existence of MCA as a professional society makes it worthwhile." But if that is not sufficient for many, he says "that the quality and professional substance of the MCA's annual National Meeting has always been of a higher calibre than the other clergy conferences I attend."

Through every means, MCA seeks to improve vocational efficiency. For the future it plans to hold area workshops.

Executive Director

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EISENHOWER ENDORSED MCA

In a special letter, the late President Eisenhower endorsed the MCA.

"Having devoted most of my life to the military establishment of our Nation, I feel that one of the key contributions to our total defense has been made by the military chaplains of all faiths. In peace and in war, at home and abroad, and under all possible conditions, these men have ministered impartially to all our citizens in the Armed Forces. This day-to-day experience of military chaplains is best expressed through the Military Chaplains Association which for (nearly) fifty years has been the spearhead and finest symbol of the Ecumenical Movement. It is my hope that this fine Association may be strengthened for the future, that it may continue to exert its moral and spiritual influence and leadership in the critical days confronting our Nation."

General of the Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Iwo Jima, An Unforgettable Moment
in American History.

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How the MCA Serves

* As the professional association for military chaplains, MCA seeks to work constantly toward those goals and objectives which will help the chaplain in the performance of his historic mission to the Armed Forces.

* Toward the accomplishment of that objective, it maintains an effective communication and liaison with the Chiefs of Chaplains, the Armed Forces Chaplain Board, and those agencies relating to military chaplains.

* It endeavors to keep a reading on the mood and movements of the times that pose any threat to the Chaplaincy, and to interpret the role of the military chaplain wherever possible.

* Within an interfaith framework it seeks to strengthen the bonds of fraternity, and stimulate professional growth by providing training opportunities; workshops and seminars.

* Group Life (term) Insurance Plan, $10,000, for MCA members available.

* Publishes six times annually THE MILITARY CHAPLAIN for members, subscribers and all financial donors.

* Helps to establish and maintain local MCA Chapters in America and overseas.

* Supervises and coordinates arrangements for "MCA's NATIONAL INSTITUTE—for Professional Growth," hosted in major cities where organized MCA Chapters exist.

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Three Chiefs' Comments on MCA

Hyatt
USA

Garrett
USN

Meade
USAF

*Chaplain Hyatt:* "If The Military Chaplains Association were nothing more than a vehicle for companionship of chaplains of three generations it would be a very worthwhile organization. It is much more than that. It is a forum through which the voices can be heard of those clergymen who know the spiritual needs of men in peace and in war. It is a unifying force among the church bodies of our nation and it represents those who more than any other group discovered the virtues and potential of ecumenism. Every chaplain should be a member and help the Association move on to other thresholds of achievement."

*Chaplain Garrett:* "MCA is the only professional organization which unites all those who hold a deep commitment to the chaplain ministry. If you invest that word 'professional' with all the dignity and content it merits you will see instantly the relevance of MCA to your ministry. The support of all active duty, reserve and retired chaplains is crucial to the MCA mission."

*Chaplain Meade:* "MCA offers Air Force chaplains the opportunity to join chaplain colleagues from all services and all faith groups in an organization dedicated to the "highest interests of The Military Chaplaincy."

There is a great potential in an organization whose membership is widely representative and whose goals are positive and praiseworthy. For this reason, I encourage Air Force chaplains to seriously consider supporting the MCA and working toward attainment of its objectives."

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"With Malice Toward None"

"With Charity For All"

MCA does *Not* purport to be "The Voice of The Military Chaplaincy" in an "official" military sense. That is the prerogative of the Chiefs of Chaplains.

MCA is a "voice" where it *Can* and *Ought* to speak with a firm *Moral Voice*, as a unified, professional society of Military Clergy.

With 200 years of dedicated service and a distinguished history, the Chaplaincies, and MCA [50 years], look to the future:

1. To *Re-enforce* the foundations on which America was built; the "authentic American Revolution;" to strengthen the moral and spiritual foundations that made us a great Nation.

2. To *Re-create* our sense of values. Change is desirable, but let us regain values on courage, dignity, integrity, industry, justice and honor.

3. To *Realize* more fully America's freedoms for all, with a concomitant sense of responsibility.

4. To *Revitalize* our sense of mission to God and Country, and to bring balanced perspective to the spiritual and social ministries.

5. To *Re-dedicate* ourselves to a "*New Spirit of '76*"; a new, vibrant America in our third century.

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Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I want to thank you in the name of all who participated in our meeting Thursday night, for sharing with us your thoughts on developments in the Middle East and letting us share with you our concerns in this matter.

I hope that we will have the opportunity, as events unfold, to continue these discussions which are most helpful in fully understanding our government's position.

I hope that you will accept the invitation to be our special guest at the dinner being given in honor of Ambassador and Mrs. Dinitz by the Presidents Conference. I was encouraged by your interest in the invitation.

With best wishes to you for a very healthy, happy and peaceful new year.

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October 2, 1974

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
State Department
Washington, D.C. 20000

Dear Mr. Secretary:

The United Synagogue of America, an organization which I have the pleasure to serve as Honorary President, is tendering a testimonial luncheon for Kenneth Rush as he prepares to leave for his new post as Ambassador to France.

The Jewish Synagogue community will be recognizing the contributions of Mr. Rush to his country and his special efforts on behalf of Israel and of Soviet Jewry.

I understand that your schedule calls for you to be some-
where in the Middle East on the date of the luncheon,
October 16th, but should there be a change, I hope that
you would find it possible to personally join us:

In any event, I am sure that Mr. Rush would appreciate,
as would we, your telegram of greetings to him on this
occasion.

The luncheon will take place on Wednesday, October 16th
at 12:30 P.M. at the Empire State Club, Empire State
Building, Room 8 on the 21st floor.

I want to wish you every success in your visit to the
Middle East and hope it brings peace closer to the Middle
East.

Kindest personal regards.

JACOB STEIN
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Dr. Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D. C.

3 September 1976

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

This past summer as in the past I visited the
Island of Nantucket, approximately 30 miles southeast
of Cape Cod, in the Atlantic Ocean. In Nantucket town
along Old South Wharf there is a great assembly of
galleries. Each year one of the galleries features
sculpture work of well-known individuals. This year
Dr. Kissinger, you were the honored individual.

I found the work of art quite good and photographed it. Enclosed please find two copies of the photograph. One is for your personal memorabilia. The second one, if you would please be so kind, I would like returned with your signature on it. I am a great admirer of your foreign policy and would be greatly honored to hear from you regarding the pictures.

With best wishes I am most respectfully

yours,

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October 17, 1974

Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Secretary:

I must call to your attention a major sociological
gaffe that you made at the Al Smith dinner last night when you
talked about "the simple faith of Al Smith's provincial America."

<u>Shtuss.</u> Al Smith was a living exemplar of the urban
ethos, a <u>man from</u> (in the words of the song) "all around the
town," a city person to the core. Al Smith would have suffered
severe anxieties in even the most limited bucolic setting; his
accent was urban, his manner was urban and his candidacy for
presidential office represented, if anything, the surge of the
urban masses (premature as it turned out) for power. He was
indeed defeated by the Wasp "mittel"-America, agrarian <u>zeitgeist</u>
which brought in Herbert Hoover.

I have just heard of a metaphysical novel that will be
published within several weeks that you might find fascinating
since one of the central characters happens to be named Kissinger,
but a pure work of imagination nonetheless.

We didn't publish it but I will send it to you as
soon as it comes out.

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The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C.

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We are honored to have the privilege of co-hosting a Welcome Back Reception and Buffet for our mutual friend and colleague John Stennis on Monday, October 15, 1973. It will be an outstanding occasion, including dignitaries, food and entertainment from Mississippi. The event will assist in raising funds for the Political Science Chair at Mississippi State University which has been named in honor of John.

The buffet and reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. and we invite you to be our honored guest on this occasion. Complimentary tickets and other details, including the Washington location, will be sent shortly, but we wanted you to place this event on your calendar and join in this tribute and celebration for John. Please call Mrs. Jean Allen (225-5054) of Jim Eastland's office about your plans at your earliest convenience.

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4. The applicable tariff charges on a message destined to any point in the continental United States listed in the Telegraph Company's Directory of Stations cover its delivery within the established city or community limits of the destination point. Beyond such limits and to points not listed in the Telegraph Company's Directory of Stations, the Telegraph Company does not undertake to make delivery but will endeavor to arrange for delivery by any available means as the agent of the sender, with the understanding that the sender authorizes the collection of any additional charge from the addressee and agrees to pay such additional charge if it is not collected from the addressee.

5. No responsibility attaches to the Telegraph Company concerning messages until the same are accepted at one of its transmitting offices; and if a message is sent to such office by one of the Telegraph Company's messengers, he acts for that purpose as the agent of the sender, except that when the Telegraph Company sends a messenger to pick up a message, the messenger in that instance acts as the agent of the Telegraph Company in accepting the message, the Telegraph Company assuming responsibility from the time of such acceptance.

6. The Telegraph Company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties when the claim is not presented in writing to the Telegraph Company (a) within ninety days after the message is filed with the Telegraph Company for transmission in the case of a message between points within the United States (except in the case of an infrastate message in Texas) or between a point in the United States on the one hand and a point in Alaska, Canada, Mexico, or St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands on the other hand, or between a point in the United States and a ship at sea or in the air; (b) within 90 days after the cause of action; or (c) within 180 days after the message is filed with the Telegraph Company for transmission in the case of a message between a point in the United States and a foreign or overseas point other than the points specified above in this paragraph, provided, however, that this condition shall not apply to claims for damages or overcharges within the purview of Section 415 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.

7. It is agreed that in any action by the Telegraph Company to recover the toll for any message or message the prompt and correct transmission and delivery there of shall be presumed, subject to rebuttal by competent evidence.

8. Special terms governing the transmission of messages according to their classes, as enumerated below, shall apply to messages in each of such respective classes in addition to all the foregoing terms.

9. No employee of the Telegraph Company is authorized to vary the foregoing.

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CLASSES OF SERVICE

DOMESTIC SERVICES

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INTERNATIONAL SERVICES

TELEGRAM

The fastest domestic service.

OVERNIGHT TELEGRAM

Economical overnight service. Accepted up to midnight for delivery the following morning, at rates lower than the telegram.

FULL RATE (FR)

The fastest overseas service. May be written in code, cipher, or in any language expressed in Roman letters.

LETTER TELEGRAM (LT)

For overnight plain language messages, at half-rate. Minimum charge for 22 words applies.

SHIP RADIOGRAM

For messages to and from ships at sea.