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Это американская пресса декабря 1941 года.
А вот о чем в США писали несколько ранее:
"If the President wants to talk to an admiral at Pearl Harbor the call can be connected in under 10 minutes!"(с)

цитата:

Should the President want to talk with the commander of the United States fleet, stationed temporarily, let us say, in Hawaii, he would simply pick up one of his many phones and say to Miss Hachmeister: “Get me Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn in Honolulu.” First of all, America’s number one “hello girl” would dial long distance and say: “The President wants Admiral Hepburn in Honolulu.” Whereupon the long distance operator would call the Foreign Service switchboard in New York City, which handles all calls outside the United States proper, and route the call to Honolulu, via San Francisco. Undoubtedly the high-ranking Navy officer could be reached directly or indirectly through the Pearl Harbor Navy yard, so a connection would be established with the yard. In actual practice, if the Admiral were present there, the call would be completed within five to ten minutes! But if he happened to be on shipboard the local operator would call him by wireless telephone with a message something like this: “The President is calling. How soon can he be ashore?” Chances are that in such case the Admiral would reply: “In about fifteen minutes.”

Of course, during the interim Mr. Roosevelt wouldn’t have to keep his ear glued to the receiver. The phone folks would hold the line open while he attended to his other official duties. Then when the Admiral reached shore Miss Hachmeister would ring the President and the trans-Pacific conversation would begin.

(c)"The WHITE HOUSE Talks to the WORLD", Modern Mechanix 1-1938
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/04/18/the-white-house-talks-to-the-world/#more-426

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