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Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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to bits in the path of theretreating enemy. At about the time that the Germanswere retreating north of Rome andwere being forced back on the Rhine,a representative of Long Lines beganarrangements in London with the 24 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING governments of Norway, Belgium,and Holland, then in exile, for the re-sumption of the war-interrupted serv-ice to their countries. He also visitedRome and Paris, hardly yet cleared ofthe enemy, to lay the foundation forrestoration of telephone service withthe United States. For both theArmy and A. T. & T. recognizedthat it would be most important tothe morale of American occupation General Post Office to make the over-seas service, which had been limitedto official calls, available for publicuses. At that time the British communi-cations system was still greatly over-loaded because of bomb damage,war-time shortages, and post-warreadjustment needs. It was at firstthought that, because of this seriouscongestion, the system could not take
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The British set up a radio telephone center near Londons Rainbow Corner forces to provide them with a meansof telephoning home. Arrangements with Great Britain To THESE ends, plans went forward,looking toward both the immediateneeds of the G.I. and the ultimatecommunications needs of a world atpeace. Shortly after V-E Day, arrange-ments were made with the British the added burden of G.I. calls fromall parts of the United Kingdom andtherefore overseas calls should belimited initially to those originatingat a telephone center in London.However, General Post Office officialssaid that they wanted to give allAmerican fighting men in Britain anequal opportunity; that the Britishpeople were grateful to them and anx-ious to accommodate them. They 1946 Three-Minute Furloughs 25 therefore willingly assumed this ad-ditional burden, and public telephoneservice between all of Great Britainand the United States became avail-able on June 23, 1945. The response of men and womenin uniform to this offe

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