Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington-London-Paris agreement, M. Auriol dramatically explained, has been under super-secret negotiation ever since last June, not a word of what Morgenthau, Chamberlain and Auriol were confiding to each other having leaked to the press...
...down to a more comfortable theory. After all the Moscow comrades who run the Soviet State Bank are in danger of their very lives if they guess wrong on how to handle its assets and up to last week many European economists had guessed-not knowing of the super-secret parleys-that once the franc sank the British would sink their pound even lower to retain .its competitive advantage in world trade. It was perfectly believable that the State Bank comrades had dumped their sterling simply because they had wrongly but honestly guessed that it was too hot for them...
...Since many Germans presume Edward VIII to be pro-German, this must work against giving credence to McMahon. On the other hand, numerous European observers consider that the fanatic Nazi secret terror squads who have done so many murders in Eastern Europe work on the assumption that Germany has nothing to lose and something to gain from any sudden shock to one of the regimes with whom Adolf Hitler is trying to make headway with his demands for colonies and land. Frequent have been charges that Nazis instigated the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander. Sick almost unto death...
Before the degree-granting ceremony was well under way, a fresh torrent of rain descended on the Yard. Still confident in his meteorologist, President Conant kept stolidly on. A concerned alumnus broke through Secret Service men to President Roosevelt, whose velvet chair had become sodden, offered an umbrella which Mr. Roosevelt smilingly declined. Moment later birdlike Jerome Davis Greene, member of the Harvard Corporation and Director of arrangements for the Tercentenary, bustled up anxiously with a gold-headed umbrella. The President again declined, turned to watch Rome's Professor Corrado Gini break a well-publicized rule...
...which cost the Austrian Emperor $30,000,000 and was attended by "five sovereigns, two hundred and sixteen heads of families and a host of lesser princes, ambassadors, envoys and intruders." Fourteen hundred horses were kept for their use. Court dinners were served on 40 tables. An army of secret police spied on the guests, so that every day the Austrians knew what had happened in bedrooms, at luncheons, balls. Wastepaper baskets were searched, letters opened, apartments discreetly raided. Sometimes the spies gave information more useful to biographers than to diplomats...