Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House press room, stand around chatting with each other until thoroughly exhausted. Thus reduced to a state of total psychic subservience, they are ushered into Franklin Roosevelt's private sanctum. Here the President, comfortably tucked in under a massive desk and surrounded by a background of secretaries and Secret Service men, sits flourishing his cigaret holder. The correspondents gather closely around the front of the desk trying politely to look as though all this were a marvel they had never seen before and scarcely dared hope to see again. The questions then begin...
Questioned again about the recent London activities of his aide. Captain Royal Ingersoll-who was last week sensationally reported by the British political tipsheet The Week to have been engaged in showing the British admiralty a complete outline of Japanese Naval plans stolen in Tokyo by a U. S. secret agent-Admiral Leahy was still reluctant to do more than admit that in London Captain Ingersoll had indeed discussed "tonnage of combatant ships...
...most convincing argument brought forth by the Admiral to refute isolationists who believe that the Big Navy bill is somehow connected with a secret Anglo-U. S. naval agreement was that the reason the Navy wanted such a big fleet was to make it independent of the need for just such alliances, give it the strength to protect both coasts alone. Thereupon, the committee called in the Big Navy bill's opponents...
...wanted to torpedo. As he had fought for the Kaiser, he now fought for the Church, and in Berlin most churchmen agree today that but for Niemoller most of the opposition to Hitler within the Lutheran fold would probably have been beaten down. Seven months ago the Gestapo (Secret Police), who had searched Pastor Niemoller's home repeatedly, finally clapped him into Moabit Prison on the triply seditious charge of ''misuse of the pulpit to vilify the State and the Party and attack the authority of the Government." The longer he has languished in jail the more...
With regard to the existence of a secret naval pact with Britain, Jones felt that any such understanding "would have to be very informal. At the same time there is nothing in our Constitution to prevent American naval officers comparing notes with British officers about their common field of operation, which is the Pacific...