" House informs me that Gerard has cabled that we would agree to the President's mediation, and that a visit from House to Berlin, with this object, would be welcomed. "My Three Years in America", - Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff

I did not answer him, but thirty minutes afterward I was pounding out on a typewriter the introduction to a four thousand word newspaper article which I cabled that night and which put the question up to the American public for an answer. ""And they thought we wouldn't fight"", - Floyd Gibbons

Accordingly he steered in that direction, hoping that having safely landed his aeroplane he might find some means of reaching the merchant whose name Mr. Barracombe had cabled to him. "Round the World in Seven Days", - Herbert Strang