SECRET DIPLOMACY.
“What tlio country will not stand,'’ said Lord Crewe, in a recent speech, “and what the country will rightly refuse to stand, is that it should find itself tied either By an explicit arrangement or even By what is equally binding—namely, by an obligation of honour, without knowing Beforehand what that obligation is to he. f. am convinced that whoever is in control of the Foreign Office will continue to see that that role is maintained. On the other hand, it is not secret diplomacy in the wrong sense if conversations take place. There niu'lt he conversations Between Foreign Ministers, Betweeen Prime Ministers, and sometimes through the medium of Amoassadors. At Geneva, which, after all, is the Mecca of open diplomacy, I think there is no doubt that there are more private conversations going on between the representatives of large and small Powers than anywhere else In fact, until the day dawns when privacy comes to an end. there will continue to he private conversations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1929, Page 8
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167SECRET DIPLOMACY. Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1929, Page 8
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