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Robert A. Colby
 

Rebecca West, ca. 192 3
 

ensued. On December 3, 1916, shortly after a piece by Wells on
reverses in France appeared, Reynolds wrote to the author that the
British government had cut off Hearst and his International Service
from the use ofthe Reynolds agency's cables "owing to his repeated
and flagrant garbling of war news." Wells was especially incensed
upon learning that his own name was being flaunted as Hearst's
own "special war correspondent." At the top of Reynolds's letter he
scribbled: "This is a damned nuisance. Will you jump in at once &
get apologies. Please stop any further sales to Hearst papers." Tvo
days later he followed through with this cable:

CARBONATO

NO DEALINGS WITH HEARST

WELLS