Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When England negotiated the secret naval deal with Hitler, approved his violation of the Versailles treaty, thereby breaking the "Siresa common front" and encouraging the Nazis' defiance, she did not consider the security or feelings of France and the small block of nations in Europe striving so hard to keep peace...
...Securities & Exchange Commission rolled up to Hyde Park with Father Coughlin in tow. So discreetly was this reunion between President and Priest handled that the Press did not know about it for 24 hours. Even the nature of the meeting or its results were kept a dead secret by both parties...
...front cover) The sun went up at Geneva last week on the climax of a great career. A scant 20 years ago Samuel Hoare was merely the name of a British secret operative in Imperial Russia whose almost immediate knowledge of the assassination of Gregory ("Mad Monk") Rasputin led to complications. These were unsnarled only when the British Ambassador personally assured excited Tsar Nicholas and his hysterical Tsarina that pro-German Rasputin had not been murdered as an act of War expediency by British Agent Hoare...
Next day the royal party journeyed by way of Geneva to Budapest amid whose Gypsy dance clubs Mrs. Simpson, in a dinner coat of spun glass, first became notable as his partner (TIME, March 11). Last week the Hungarian Secret Service recalled that during his visit last year only the most strenuous efforts kept out of newsorgans the fact that H. R. H. amused himself some evenings by standing in his bedroom in the Hotel Dunapalota and breaking the electric light bulbs in a room opposite with well-aimed shots from his pistol...
...politics, correspondence for publication is rarely a matter of spontaneous combustion. Generally letter and reply are discussed in advance, then carefully drafted, and finally sent through the mails as a preliminary to being given to the Press. It was a political secret how and when Publisher Howard first approached the White House with the suggestion that it would be a good idea for him to write a letter raising popular criticisms of the New Deal, for the President to write an answer putting them down. Franklin Roosevelt thought the idea good enough to try, succeeded in touching the country...