Word: discreetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a while for the Polish intelligence service to react. Then discreet inquiries began to be made. The Yugoslavs reported that the Monats had never reached Belgrade. Austrian authorities professed total ignorance. Thoroughly alarmed at last, Poland sent hordes of agents converging on Vienna from Warsaw, London and Paris, ostensibly to attend the Communist Youth Festival there. They began prowling the cafes and clubs frequented by anti-Communist Polish emigrés. There was no trace of the colonel...
...arrival in Tokyo Charlie Porter was understandably hesitant about going on to Formosa. At his request, Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II made some discreet inquiries, assured Porter that he was still welcome. He was. Although Chiang was, unsurprisingly, too preoccupied to see him, the top officials of the Nationalist government turned out to greet Porter at a dinner at the home of the U.S. chargé d'affaires, on the day of his arrival. Sensing a certain "strain in the air," Porter opened the conversation jovially: "I suppose that if I convince you of my point of view...
...NATO is absurd. France is intelligent enough to realize that her security is to a large degree dependent on the American alliance. But De Gaulle thinks NATO's structure could be more efficient. For example, he thinks that there is too much integration in the army command, necessitating a discreet balance between generals and staff officers of the various countries. He won't change the structure by himself, but he would like to start negotiations to change...
Throughout, the Soviet government maintained a discreet silence. Remarked the press attache of the Russian embassy in Rome: "We have no comment-except that Italians talk too much...
...Gaulle had shown no public interest in the rebels' reply, neither had he publicly denounced it. The sides were closer together now than ever before, and it was a reasonable guess that both De Gaulle and the rebels were brooding over the next discreet effort to narrow the gap. As Rome's Il Tempo put it: "The door is closed, but the window is open...