Excerpt from Secret Diplomacy: How Far Can It Be Eliminated? IS secret diplomacy the evil spirit of modern politics? Is it the force that keeps nations in a state of potential hostility and does not allow a feeling of confidence and of wholehearted co operation to grow up? Or is it only a trade de vice, a clever method Of surrounding with an aura of importance the doings of the diplomats, a race of men Of average wisdom and intelligence who traditionally have valued the prestige Of dealing with secret affairs of state? Or is it some thing less romantic than either Of these - merely the survival from a more barbarous age of in stincts of secretiveness and chicane acquired at a time when self-defense was the necessity of every hour? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.