Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy maker but as an expert who merely put his skill at the service of his country. Last week, however, he quit, simply saying in his letter to the President: "Circumstances have now arisen which make it advisable for me to tender you my resignation." An open secret in Washington was the fact that the "circumstances" were, in substance, the 1936 political campaign. Expert or no expert, he did not wish to stand in the light of one who supported an Administration whose policies he did not approve. President Roosevelt wrote him a warm little note of thanks beginning...
...with a historical point of his own. The Committee had learned from "the highest possible sources," said he, that immediately after the U. S. entered the War, President Wilson and Secretary Lansing were informed by Arthur J. Balfour, Sir Edward Grey's successor as Foreign Secretary, of the secret treaties in which the Allies had agreed to divide up conquered territories after winning the War. Later the President and Secretary of State had declared that they knew nothing about these treaties until they arrived at the Peace Conference. Senator Nye's shocking conclusion: "The President and Secretary Lansing...
...memoirs, from Colonel House's diary, from a letter written by Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George-all indicating that on his visit to the U. S. in the spring of 1917 Secretary Balfour had told President Wilson and Secretary Lansing all about the secret treaties. Furthermore, declared Senator Clark, Secretary Balfour had left with the State Department "a comprehensive memorandum" concerning the treaties. Then the Missouri Senator drew out the record of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Aug. 19, 1919, once more let the Wartime leaders speak their parts...
Senator Borah: When did the secret treaties . . . first come to your knowledge? Was that after you had reached Paris...
Senator Borah: Then we had no knowledge of these secret treaties, so far as our Government was concerned, until you reached Paris...