Word: indiscreetness
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...again, first as adviser on Balkan affairs, then as interpreter for House and Wilson at secret meetings where no stenographic notes were kept and no official translations made. He kept his diary at Wilson's insistence. When he told the President that he was afraid the entries were indiscreet, Wilson said: "You can't be too indiscreet for me. I give you full absolution in advance...
...bottles of choice champagne), or embellishing his vast Moscow house with cockerels and baby bears borrowed from the zoo. As the first U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Bullitt was the darling of Moscow, until the mutual love affair turned to mutual coolness. He made a decorative but somewhat indiscreet U.S. Ambassador to France...
Shrewd Political Warrior Churchill, knowing that a resounding Grigg victory would be viewed as a victory for himself and the Government, jumped right into the middle of the campaign with a message to Sir James-a message which was calculated to erase his indiscreet boast for the Conservatives. "I am glad to know," said Churchill, "that at this grave moment in our history you are appealing to the electorate ... as a nonparty member. I hope and believe that they will emphatically endorse your appointment as Secretary of State for War, realizing that to play party politics at such a time...
...Countess wondered what indiscreet Bucharestians were like. But just then the Old Excellencies bowed to an "extraordinary dark beauty" who was slipping off her sables. "That," whispered the Greyhound, "is the friend of the German and the Hungarian and the Italian ministers. They all pay her for telling them what Udareanu [Carol's court chamberlain] does. And Udareanu pays her to tell him what the ministers are up to. The perfect arrangement...
...Tokyo newspaper Kokumin last week had some harsh words to say about the "fickle, indiscreet Japanese" who give away their plans and allow other nations to prepare against them. Germany, said Kokumin, "remains a sphinx and acts unexpectedly with lightning speed." By coincidence, only three days earlier the Japan Times and Advertiser, English-language organ of the Foreign Office, had published an "abstract exploration for a possible world peace" which was either a pipe dream of the future or the frankest, completest and grimmest Fascist plan to date for the New World Order...