Word: secropen
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...queer way of practicing diplomacy is to sign an agreement, keep the text secret, and then create a furore in the international press by openly alluding in provocative, general terms to what has been agreed. Such a course might be christened "Secropen Diplomacy." Such was the course steered, last week, by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. They sent a résumé of their secret agreement to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who was not authorized to divulge its text...
...Anglo-French understanding of any real value has been arrived at, it must embrace compromises respecting submarines and categories. But the "Secropen Diplomacy" stunt of last week is open to a grave suspicion that it may be empty of any real compromise, and designed simply as a blatant advertisement that France and Great Britain stand together diplomatically however unready they may be to limit armaments...
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