Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most interested spectator of the Italian leave-taking was a Britisher, Francis Hemming, secretary of London's Non-intervention Committee. No secret is it that by this "token" withdrawal both Dictator Benito Mussolini and Generalissimo Franco hope to persuade Britain and France to grant belligerent rights to Rightist Spain. To New York Times Correspondent William P. Carney, however, Mr. Hemming said that Italian aviators, artillerymen and technicians as well as infantrymen ought to be withdrawn...
...Nazis shouted "Pfui Innitzer!" and "Hang the black dog!" during a furious speech by Nazi Commissioner Josef Bürckel. Calling the Cardinal a friend of Jews, burly Herr Bürckel declared that negotiations with the Catholics to settle the matter of religious schools and seminaries-hitherto kept secret-were definitely off. Cardinal Innitzer switched off his radio, retired to his chapel to pray...
...SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN-Amleto Vespa-Little, Brown...
Amleto Vespa was born in Italy, became a secret agent of Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin in 1920 and a Chinese citizen in 1924. When the Japanese took over Manchuria, they also took over Amleto Vespa. He was useful to them for his knowledge of the country, and for his status as a European who nevertheless could not claim the protection ''of a European country. According to Amleto Vespa, the Japanese forced him to become their agent by threatening his wife and children. Secret Agent of Japan is his account of his experiences from 1932 until...
...birth minimizing interdepartmental conflict, since officers blamed him rather than the army). A fascist and an admirer of Mussolini, Vespa nevertheless believes that "the nations of the world are committing a most terrible mistake in dealing with the Japanese as though they were a civilized people." The authenticity of Secret Agent of Japan is vouched for by Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China) and by Harold John Timperley, Far Eastern correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Without such confirmation, readers might question Vespa's story, not because he fails to cite chapter and verse for his statements, but because...