Word: secretly
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...almost" factor was provided by negotiations in Hankow last week between Generalissimo Chiang and the German Ambassador Dr. Oskar P. Trautmann. acting for Japan. News of these talks, although every effort had been made by Trautmann to keep them secret, was broken by dispatches from Hankow routed to the outside world via Moscow. What were said to be the "mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo...
Incidentally Sir Robert has had the British Secret Service under his immediate control, and has disbursed many thousands of pounds of the Foreign Office's "secret funds"-money for the spending of which the law not only does not require but forbids any detailed accounting to Parliament. Beyond all this, Sir Robert, himself, is recognized as a brilliant, persuasive and what the British call "sound" man, at whose London house the Prime Minister of the day and even the King are glad to lunch or dine. It was no wonder, therefore, that two small news items about Sir Robert...
Before breaking with Nahas Pasha the King had proposed that his differences with the Premier, chiefly about matters of political patronage and spending of the Egyptian treasury's secret political funds (TIME, Jan. 3), should be arbitrated by a high tribunal to be composed of all living former Premiers, former speakers of the Egyptian Parliament and high legal officers. This royal offer Premier El Nahas, who has a huge majority in the present Parliament, refused, declaring: "Only Parliament is able to adjudicate this matter...
...neutral in the controversy. Last week the bickering came to a head with both King and Cabinet in a bellicose mood. The Cabinet sent Farouk a flat demand that he sign a bill recently passed by Parliament allowing the Premier to distribute, without accounting for, some $195,000 in secret funds for suppression of foreign propaganda...
After a flying visit and a peek behind the strict censorship, tightened when Vargas took over absolute power with a new constitution two months ago (TIME, Nov. 22), Author Davis reported: "The present regime in Brazil is the stark, unabashed personal dictatorship by Getulio Vargas, the President. . . . The secret of his power is in the manipulation of army officers. . . . As long as he can control a majority of the army he is safe. He also tries to secure the backing of business and has now the support of the majority, who are willing to tolerate almost anyone, provided profits continue...