So many secret meetings with different persons are simply awful'-- He threw up his hands--'Now we have the result.

It is terrible!' "I laughed and said, 'I conclude that you do not like secret diplomacy.' "'I do not; I do not,' he fervently exclaimed.

'All our trouble comes from these secret meetings of four men [referring to the Big Four], who keep no records and who tell different stories of what takes place.

Secrecy is to blame.

We have been unable to rely on any one.
To have to run around and see this man and that man is not the way to do.