Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people think, His Majesty's Government may be reluctantly obliged to aid in slaking German thirst for more territory. In the city, London bigwigs were to be heard saying with approval that what "they" are now thinking about is to revive the effect of certain obscure pre-War secret treaties and engagements. Under these Britain was to have looked on understandingly while potent Germans obtained as peacefully as possible rich lands in Africa now belonging to impotent Portugal...
Senator Johnson, to Secretary Lansing: Did either of these gentlemen [Balfour and Viviani] while here communicate to you any secret treaties that had been executed for the disposition of territory after...
...postponed, but the Conference did agree that its member states are to tell each other early each year what warboats they are going to build that year. The Conference further agreed that Japanese observers left behind by Admiral Nagano shall not be permitted to attend the Conference's secret sessions, as they impudently requested...
...gory death in an Alpine chalet of one Stavisky, either a suicide or slain by the French Secret Police because he knew too much; the stench of corruption in the French Government; the marching indignation of French citizens who made for the Chamber of Deputies only to be fired upon (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934)-in short the whole colossal Stavisky Scandal which nearly produced another French Revolution has had one concrete result. Since the scandal broke, French politicians have realized that they must stand together, and the nation has been ruled by coalition Cabinets with greater authority and less squabbling...
...these years his daughter had to listen to almost continuous public attacks on the way her father made his money, his love of display, his "secret government" of the U. S. It gave her a lifelong horror of publicity and all forms of ostentation. In 1901 Abby Aldrich married a young man who thought the same way about great wealth for the same reasons. His name was John D. Rockefeller...