Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director of the Navy's War Plans Divisions. Captain Royal Ingersoll last winter went to England to exchange data about Naval building with the British Admiralty. At House hearings on the Big Navy Bill, this prompted talk of a secret alliance between England and the U. S. Last week. Franklin Roosevelt upped 54-year-old Captain Ingersoll to a rear admiralty. His job when confirmed by the Senate': command of the Sixth Cruiser Division, at San Pedro...
...Nazis but democratic Germans of the Republic who in 1931 secured the arrest, conviction and sentencing to 18 months' imprisonment of Carl von Ossietsky for the crime of editing articles which could be construed as divulging to the enemies of the Fatherland what was already an open secret known to all Europe-that Germany had from the start violated the Treaty of Versailles by clandestine rearmament, even under Chancellor Stresemann...
Meanwhile, in Germany last week it became known that one bishop, out of the whole German hierarchy, had deliberately abstained from voting in last month's plebiscite. That one, Bishop Johann Baptist Sproll, head of the Church in Württemberg, had immediately been informed by the secret police that his security could not be guaranteed. He left his episcopal seat, Rottenburg, but presently returned. Last week the Nazi governor of Württemberg, Wilhelm Murr, demanded that Bishop Sproll resign his post, on the grounds that his "disloyalty" to the State was a violation of the 1933 concordat...
...less a prelate than Cardinal Verdier has advised Catholics not to take sides in the Spanish War. At a recent General Congregation in Rome-the first meeting of the high command of the Society of Jesus since 1923-French Catholics believe that this Jesuit left wing predominated. Immensely secret, the Congregation revealed only that it had elected a Perpetual Vicar General for the order, to help the ailing General, Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowsky, with his manifold duties. The new Vicar General, a 37-year-old Belgian named Maurice Schurmans, was saluted by French Jesuits as an able antiFascist...
...vehicle for any serious message from Labor, the latter declares its youthfulness and strength and its determination to get what's coming to it, but it is so free from vindictiveness and revolutionary urging that the spectators, no matter what their social complexion, applaud spontaneously without any secret twinges of alarm...