Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powers warmed to Papal intervention. But the Pope has evidently not given up hope for a Vatican get-together, as he conferred with British Minister to the Vatican Francis D. G. Osborne and sent messages to London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Warsaw. What he said to Minister Osborne remained a secret...
...demands for partitioning the big estates, what to do with Hungary's Jews, Premier Count Paul Teleki last week asked Hungarians to vote confidence in his foreign policy of close but wary association with the Axis by keeping his Government Party in power. In Hungary's first secret ballot since 1920 they did. Result: for the Government Party 180 out of 260 seats. But this Hungarian rhapsody ended when returns showed that the five Hungarian Nazi parties had increased their seats from 14 to 39 and their total popular vote was 21% as compared to the Government...
...Germany 20,000 copies of a book of such letters, written by some of the 2,000 pastors who have been arrested since Naziism came into power, were secretly circulated until secret police discovered them. Last fortnight the letters were published in the U. S. under the title I Was in Prison.† The volume's parallels between the imprisoned early Christians and the imprisoned anti-Nazis were pat, pointed. I Was in Prison testified to the resources of faith and courage which the Protestant pastors have found in the Bible. The Bible itself was last week unashamedly unwelcome...
Corporal Hino's main point: war is uncomfortable. Even a dictatorship cannot keep this cold and muddy fact a secret, with 10,000 soldiers writing home every week. Smart Japanese know it is better to have the fact heroically stated by a soldier who is doing his bit, especially when he also reports his comrades begging their officers to forgive them for getting wounded, dying with a shout of "May our Emperor live a thousand years!" They may do these things better in Moscow and Berlin, but Japan is catching up with the West...
MOSCOW--Mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens of the sensational 'Robinson-Rubens" passport fraud and espionage case tonight was believed to be under the surveillance of the Soviet N.K.V.D.--Secret police--possibly at some obscure health resort, after her release from Butyrskaya prison...