Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What did it mean? The correspondents of all the great news agencies at Rome cabled that "a trustworthy source" had supplied them with tidings of a secret pact between Greece and Italy, said to envision the ousting of Turkey from her Aegean and Mediterranean possessions between Constantinople and the port of Adalia (east of Rhodes...
...specific objects of the pact were said to be the return to Greece of Smyrna and its hinterland, and the occupation by Italy of Adalia (Turkey) and its hinterland along the Bagdad railway. Thus Italy would seize at last the territory promised her in the secret Pact of London (1915), which induced her to join the Allies in the World...
Unfortunately the letter came under the eye of the French secret service, and four operatives were sent after "the man who has dared to insult the Premier of France." Simultaneously the Minister of Commerce started proceedings against the carpenter for having "illegally mailed currency in an unregistered letter...
...this ponderous breaking of a carpenter upon wheels within wheels came to an end when M. Briand himself chanced to read his admirer's letter. Touched by its evident sincerity he detected no insult, called off the secret service and the Minister of Commerce, sent the carpenter a warm note of appreciation, returned the 1,000 francs...
Since Mata Hari's secret trial it has been known only that her lover was "a Cabinet Minister whose name begins with an M and ends with a Y"? both of which qualifications apply to both M. Malvy and General Messimy. The General has apparently held his peace all too long...