{"id":30757,"date":"2015-03-23T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30757"},"modified":"2015-03-22T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T14:52:12","slug":"whats-in-a-name-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/whats-in-a-name-3\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/6866\/le-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Steyn<\/a> linked to this rather amusing communication from the British embassy in Moscow, back in 1943:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntk.net\/2000\/02\/25\/moscow.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Embassy-letter-from-Moscow.gif\" alt=\"Embassy letter from Moscow\" width=\"410\" height=\"630\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30758\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s not quite legible, he also provided a text version:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\">H.M. EMBASSY<br \/>\nMOSCOW<\/div>\n<p>Lord Pembroke<br \/>\nThe Foreign Office<br \/>\nLondon<\/p>\n<p>6th April 1943<\/p>\n<p>My Dear Reggie,<\/p>\n<p>    In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I propose to share with you a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustapha Kunt.<\/p>\n<p>    We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Archie<\/p>\n<p>Sir Archibald Clark Kerr<br \/>\nH.M. Ambassador<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn linked to this rather amusing communication from the British embassy in Moscow, back in 1943: If it&#8217;s not quite legible, he also provided a text version: H.M. EMBASSY MOSCOW Lord Pembroke The Foreign Office London 6th April 1943 My Dear Reggie, In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,57],"tags":[432,249],"class_list":["post-30757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-humour","tag-diplomacy","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-805","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30761,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30757\/revisions\/30761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}