Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back up this demand for action, the Saar Commission sent to Geneva a report stating that Saar police can no longer be relied on and are now hand in glove with the Secret Police of Adolf Hitler across the border. Up to a few months ago Saar Catholics, offended by Nazi attempts to bring their church to heel in Germany, were expected to influence the plebiscite strongly, but by last week the poll seemed so likely to favor Germany that a frantic rush had begun by Saar citizens to climb on the Nazi bandwagon...
...been held in Tokyo with the Japanese Foreign Office setting the figure Manchukuo offers to pay. The first offer, less than one-fifth of Russia's demand, provoked Moscow to horse laughs, especially as it was made in depreciated, fluctuating Japanese yen. Since then all figures have been secret, with Comrade Yurenev and Mr. Hirota defying each other with a "final offer" every few months. Last week, with tempers erupting on both sides, a break in negotiations came as the dummy third party, Manchukuo's Vice Foreign Minister Chuichi Ohashi, who is a Japanese, packed his bags...
...FAIR?Captain Henry Landau? Putnam ($3). "By far the greater majority of those who were employed by the British Secret Service in the occupied territories of Belgium and France, and in Germany, worked directly under me as their immediate Chief in the Field." So says Captain Henry Landau in beginning a detailed but never tedious record of the British spy system operating from Holland. Though no braggart, the author is not given to false modesty, takes honest pride in the achievements of himself and the men and women who risked a firing squad under his orders...
Along the Dutch-Belgian frontier the Germans had stretched an electrified barricade patrolled by sentries. Captain Landau in Holland had to work through that deadly fence to rebuild on the other side a British secret service almost from the ground...
Born in Madison, Wis., Author Braley was, he says, "a fat and rather repulsive baby." His father was a judge and politician with a secret ambition to write, mostly about Shakespeare. Young Berton was a prig until, after his father's death, he had to leave school and spend two years in a factory. At 18 he sold his first piece of verse to Judge for $3. After working his way through the University of Wisconsin, writing for college papers and holding down odd jobs, he began his career on a Butte, Mont. newspaper. When, after four years there...