secret diplomacy

"People have gotten used to the idea of secret diplomacy."

"I was told that you have recently become expert in the field of secret diplomacy!"

The book is rich in the details of this secret diplomacy.

There are, in fact, different levels of secret diplomacy as it has been practiced through the years.

Such bodies move in the twilight zone of secret diplomacy.

The justification for this secret diplomacy was that a loud voice would not have produced better results.

The minority found the Administration guilty only of excessively secret diplomacy.

Baker's Message This will not be secret diplomacy at work.

But they preferred to try to gain his release through back channels and secret diplomacy.

In the realm of secret diplomacy it would appear that public opinion had only a very minor role to play.

'He thinks the world would do better with secret diplomacy.'

There's the one thing that no nation can ever accuse us of, and that is secret diplomacy.

"Secret diplomacy hasn't got to that pitch, I hope."

Morel's attack on 'secret diplomacy' was to have immense influence after war broke out in 1914.

It wanted to replace monarchy by a republic, abolish secret diplomacy, the army and the navy.

Secret diplomacy about who sits where at the conference table will never do that, but, this time at least, maybe nothing will.

Bush had the advantage that secret diplomacy carried on with the Red Chinese regime during those days was subject to very little public scrutiny.

The meetings illustrated the quirks of secret diplomacy.

The causes identified included arms races, alliances, secret diplomacy, and the freedom of sovereign states to enter into war for their own benefit.

A second round of secret diplomacy by Anderson in February 1956 was equally fruitless.

Is it just possible that the Bush administration could be working on some similar secret diplomacy now, say, exile for Saddam Hussein?

At times he was passive, seemed to be incurious and was forgetful about secret diplomacy with Iran.

Interviews with Jordanian, Israeli and American participants disclosed many details of the secret diplomacy.

Secret diplomacy is now unjustified.

Why, then, not stick to secret diplomacy in the Middle East, which has often been the most potent weapon in solving diplomatic problems?