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And he had a secret aim: to take Hungary out of the Soviet bloc and steer it to the West.
Bizarre theories sprung up about Diana’s death including claims that the British secret service murdered her because she was a threat to the throne, or that she is living happily with her new love, Dodi Fayed, having staged the entire event to get away from the glare of publicity.
However, this was a deeply concealed state secret.
Unlocking this secret may help doctors prevent, treat, or eliminate some chronic pain disorders.
But the truly important part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was its Secret Protocols, which divided Europe into two imperial domains, Stalin’s and Hitler’s, without the consent – or even the knowledge – of the nations consigned to them.
Molotov, who remained in power throughout the war and until 1956, denied the existence of the Secret Protocols until his death 30 years later.
Bookstores once regarded their inventory as a trade secret.
Instead, successive US administrations have pressured India to engage diplomatically with Pakistan, including through secret meetings between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s national security adviser and his Pakistani counterpart in Bangkok and elsewhere.
BNP did not, engineering secret transactions involving all three countries.
Activists in Fatah, Hamas’s nationalist rival which runs the PA, make no secret of their hope that Hamas loses the war.
Most people, it seems, will tolerate a modest amount of political repression, including secret police, torture, and corruption, if it delivers security and a modicum of prosperity and fairness.
They are legal radicals, supporting the form of torture called water-boarding, as well as widespread secret wiretapping.
After all, the Nazis accused Jews of being the secret force behind both capitalism andcommunism – a contradiction as well as lie that is resuscitated in “The Puppet Master?”.
It is no secret that he irritated France and Germany.
In fact, the secret to OPEC’s survival is its weakness, not its strength.
The secret behind these countries’ success is relentlessly focused leaders, whether entrenched but benign dictators or democratically elected politicians with a shared vision of a broad-based economy.
(If someone did know the cause or causes of such movements, they would probably keep it a secret so as to make a bundle in the market!)
After all, the Soviet Union was a totalitarian state that could rely on a powerful and ubiquitous secret police.
Here, we run into a dirty little secret of world politics: many commentators on international politics do not know much about economics or economic policy.
Of course, censorship is not a big secret in China.
Fabricated evidence, secret witnesses, and flights of investigative fancy are the foundation of the show trials that Turkish police and prosecutors have mounted since 2007.
According to a knowledgeable ECB source, however, Europe’s finance ministers regularly meet in secret with the ECB leadership for a mutual and frank exchange of views on monetary policy and other issues.
It is an understandable concern: money that the Bank lends to developing countries that ends up in secret bank accounts or finances some contractors’ luxurious lifestyle leaves a country more indebted, not more prosperous.
In August 2001, just before the terrorist attacks on America, the US government vetoed an OECD effort to limit secret bank accounts.
Although American officials had said that the United States would not support Obasanjo if the election were flawed, it was an open secret long before polling began that the PDP would manipulate the outcome to remain in power.
These accounts should be frozen, despite the difficulty in doing so in a world rife with secret banking and nominee accounts that disguise true ownership.
This is the untold secret of women’s struggle in the workplace: if you ask any senior woman off the record, she is likely to agree that most of her male colleagues have no problem with women’s authority, but that some simply cannot abide it, no matter how it is wielded.
Stalin found an opportunity in secret talks with Adolf Hitler, where he demanded the return of what had been lost after 1917, including the Baltic states, Finland, and part of Poland.
The secret drafting of a black list behind a member’s back is unacceptable and, in my view, seriously damages the OECD’s credibility.
At the same time, people's irrational fears and secret desires could not be suppressed.
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