" Secret diplomacy " (to use the phrase in its
reasonable sense and not in the silly sense of those who imagine that delicate negotiations could profitably be carried out in the market place with all the partisans and all the news- papers :sitting round to stir up ill-feeling) has ceased to be. There can be no such thing now as a secret Treaty. Every Treaty has to be registered at the League of Nations. In order to appreciate how different all this is from the methods of only a generation ago one need only turn to the records published recently by the German Government under the title of Die Grosse Politik der Europdischen Kabindte, 1871-1914. It is amazing to reflect that as recently as 1887 Lord Salisbury made secret Treaties with Austria and Italy of which nothing was known until an Austrian researcher discovered one of the Treaties in -1920.
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