Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Paris midnight tolled and the 2O0th day of World War II began last week with the Chamber of Deputies locked in secret session. Fate of the Daladier Cabinet was at stake. Cabbies, huddled outside, figured the square-rigged Premier must be taking on his massive chin outspoken criticism from many Deputies because of the war's military standstill...
News correspondents, on vigil in Room No. 4 on the second floor of Helsinki's Hotel Kemp, heard the German broadcast and several others from foreign stations, but still could get no confirmation from Finnish officials. No news came from the Finnish Diet, which wrangled in secret far into the night, debating whether or not to accept at this last hour the Allies' offer of 50,000 troops. Morning came, and though news correspondents were certain now of peace, Finns were not. A carpenter busy boarding up a store window against more bomb splinters said...
...midnight round-up arrested and carted off to England hundreds of prominent Sinn Feiners, including de Valera. The T.D.'s still at large then met, proclaimed the Irish Republic and named de Valera its "President." After that daring supporters smuggled the "President" out of jail, and the Irish "secret service" of Michael Collins, also a veteran of the Easter Rebellion, managed to get him on a ship to the U. S., long fertile ground for Irish nationalism. There he did what many another Irish patriot had done before-raised money and sympathy for the Irish cause...
...worried last week by a wave of smut which seemed to be breaking over the U. S. song trade. Its directors formally condemned writers and publishers of "salacious and suggestive songs," threatened them with spankings or worse. On the carpet this week were three ASCAP members (names kept secret). Possible penalties: a warning, a fine, reduction in rating, suspension, outright expulsion from the society...
...urge which drives slight, bespectacled Lecturer Knickerbocker, with his shock of wavy, flame-red hair (balding on top), is his belief that this is very much a U. S. war. He makes no secret of his Franco-British sympathies, believes the war may last six years or longer, end in a Soviet Europe. In his first lectures he called for outright U. S. intervention. Now he no longer flatly advocates intervention in his lecture; but in the question period that follows, he generally makes his conviction amply clear. So far he has told an estimated 70,000 people his belief...