Word: secret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just what Mr. Lewis would have labor propose to the council of reason is still either his secret or his unsolved problem. However, Washington observers agreed with the Baltimore Sun's J. Fred Essary that Mr. Lewis' speech to the British Empire was "his most sensational bid for both labor and political leadership in this country and his most savage attack upon the Administration...
...Soviet Council of People's Commissars has received any foreign journalist, and thus last week the Moscow corps of correspondents was highly excited by an invitation to confer with Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff in his Louis XV office which looks out across the street at the Secret Political Police building...
Protests. The texts of British and French remonstrances with the Spanish Rightists this week over the Douhetting of Barcelona were kept secret at London and Paris, but Secretary of State Cordell Hull blazed at Washington: "No theory of war can justify such conduct. . . . I feel that I am speaking for the whole American people...
...CRYSTAL WORLD-Richard Aldington- Doubleday, Doran ($1.75). An author who always manages to seem honester than the words he writes, Novelist Aldington (Death of A Hero, All Men Are Enemies, et al.) here plies his trade-secret with a heavy hand. Twenty-one oozy love lyrics, written in the first person, are followed by a commentary in which he describes the crystal sources of the ooze. For debutantes, deadly poison...
...German Foreign Minister agreed to transmit most anxious British warnings to Adolf Hitler, and then Ribbentrop with Chamberlain and Halifax joined the ladies. Later in the day Der Führer. who was holding his secret Privy Council on Foreign Affairs in continuous session at Berlin as German military radio flashed moment-by-moment technical details of the troop movements, was waited upon by the British & French Ambassadors with identical, very sharply-worded protests. But they were not accompanied by anyone representing Russia, or the U. S., or Italy, or Japan. An agonizing interval of many hours elapsed before incredulous...