In a secret detailed letter to the Soviet leadership of July 21, 1967, Sakharov explains the need to " take the Americans at their word " and accept their proposal " for a bilateral rejection by the USA and the Soviet Union of the development of antiballistic missile defense ", because otherwise an arms race in this new technology would increase the likelihood of nuclear war.

In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.

However, due to bureaucratic fears of foreigners doing secret research, the money was not actually issued until Szilárd implored Einstein to send a second letter to the president in the spring of 1940.

On 10 July 1929, Radek alongside other oppositionists Ivar Smilga and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, signed a document capitulating to Stalin., with Radek being held in particular disdain by oppositionist circles for his betrayal of Yakov Blumkin, who had been carrying a secret letter from Trotsky, in exile in Turkey, to Radek.

Additionally, he himself and Panchen Lama of Dirgacha wrote a secret letter ot East India Company seeking military assistance.

In the middle of their way to the treasure, Scrooge, Matilda and Scrooge's nephews find a letter from Fergus, who believed Scrooge would eventually find it, revealing the reason he hid the secret from Scrooge is that Scrooge would feel better building his own fortune instead of inheriting one.

In a letter to Lord Acton on 11 February 1885, Gladstone criticised Tory Democracy as " demagogism " that " put down pacific, law-respecting, economic elements that ennobled the old Conservatism " but " still, in secret, as obstinately attached as ever to the evil principle of class interests ".

This plot driven format was driven often by a prop device, such as letter, or glass of water, that revealed some secret information.

Ironically, Nora's leaving is as much motivated by " the letter " and disclosure of a " past secret " as it is by her own determination to strike out on her own.

Meanwhile, a French secret agent steals a letter addressed to a military officer in the German embassy.

It reminds you more of a speech than of a mere effusion ; of a letter rather than a secret diary.

Meanwhile, William had written a secret letter to Charles in January 1672 asking his uncle to exploit the situation by exerting pressure on the States-General to appoint William stadtholder.

But Ricimer had placed a guard at Ostia who found the secret letter ; Ricimer showed the document to Olybrius, which convinced Olybrius to accept the purple.

There is no mention of a secret letter in the other version.

Thus, if a censor uses this method to intercept messages, he or she may then let the letter be sent to the intended recipient who will be unaware that the secret message has already been intercepted by a third party.

In these variety puzzles, one or more clues may require modification to fit into the grid, such as dropping or adding a letter, or being anagrammed to fit other, unmodified clues ; unclued spaces may spell out a secret message appropriate for the puzzle theme once the puzzle is fully solved.

Henkes and Bindervoet generally summarise the critical consensus when they argue that, between the thematically indicative opening and closing chapters, the book concerns " two big questions " which are never resolved: what is the nature of protagonist HCE ’ s secret sin, and what was the letter, written by his wife ALP, about?

Unable to keep her love for Caunus a secret from him any longer, she sent him a long love letter through a servant giving examples of other incestuous relationships between the gods.

The Free Trade ministers were appalled that Chamberlain's letter of resignation had been kept secret, and the Duke of Devonshire, who had also resigned, rescinded his decision.

The Eastern Roman Emperor, Leo I, sent Olybrius to mediate between Ricimer and Anthemius but, according to John Malalas, had sent a secret letter to Anthemius, urging him to kill Olybrius.

Charles agreed, in principle, to the first three points and wrote a letter dated 25 March 1917, to Sixtus giving " the secret and unofficial message that I will use all means and all my personal influence " to the President of France.

This fact is mentioned in a letter from the secret committee of the court of directors to the Madras government, dated 27 April 1768.

Karl Sand, the murderer of August von Kotzebue, was one of Fries's pupils ; and a letter of his, found on another student, warning Sand against participation in secret societies, was twisted by the suspicious authorities into evidence of Fries ' conspiracy.

Lucian, writing in his book On Slips of the Tongue describes an occasion when Hephaestion's conversation one morning implied that he had been in Alexander's tent all night, and Plutarch describes the intimacy between them when he tells how Hephaestion was in the habit of reading Alexander's letters with him, and of a time when he showed that the contents of a letter were to be kept secret by touching his ring to Hephaestion's lips.

Lloyd George, Birkenhead and Winston Churchill ( still distrusted by many Conservatives ) wished to use armed force against Turkey ( the Chanak Crisis ), but had to back down when offered support only by New Zealand, but not Canada, Australia or South Africa ; an anonymous letter appeared in " The Times " supporting the government but stating that Britain could not " act as the policeman for the world ", and it was an open secret that the author, " A Colonial ", was in fact Bonar Law.

The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " — " S. O., E " — which is not found in histories written after about 1960.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

* The Perks of Being a Wallflower ( 1999 ) was written by Stephen Chbosky in the form of letters from an anonymous character to a secret role model of sorts.

Taxil promoted a book by Diana Vaughan ( actually written by himself, as he later confessed publicly ) that purported to reveal a highly secret ruling body called the Palladium, which controlled the organization and had a satanic agenda.

* Hidden messages on paper written in secret inks, under other messages or on the blank parts of other messages.

According to Ramaz, it is fit to be called Midrash haNe ' elam because " its topic is mostly the neshamah ( an upper level of soul ), the source of which is in Beri ' ah, which is the place of the upper Gan Eden ; and it is written in the Pardes that drash is in Beri ' ah ... and the revealed midrash is the secret of externality, and Midrash haNe ' elam is the secret of internality, which is the neshamah.

" The Gift of the Magi " is a short story written by O. Henry ( a pen name for William Sydney Porter ), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.

If any of the guessers says the correct word or phrase within the time limit in the literal form as written on the slip, their team wins that round ; if the phrase is not guessed when the time limit expires, the team that produced the secret phrase wins the round.

This is so that the formula for the longevity drug, which is known only to Devereaux and not written down, can be preserved and kept secret.

In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, it is claimed that the historical Shakyamuni Buddha taught tantra, but that since these are ' secret ' teachings, confined to the guru / disciple relationship, they were generally written down long after the Buddha's other teachings, the Pali Canon and the Mahayana sutras.

This image is of a secret memo written by members of the authority on the subject of the new constitution.

George dedicated Das neue Reich (" the new Empire ") in 1928, including the Geheimes Deutschland (" secret Germany ") written in 1922, to Berthold.

Turner refused to produce a written agreement he'd made with Trudeau before taking office, documenting a secret deal that saw Trudeau step down early.

Recognizing its potential importance as the earliest map to show America, Mellon insisted that its existence be kept secret until a scholarly book had been written about it.

He found and kept the book written by Fenton and containing the secret knowledge of the Guardians.

Although the offending passages are duly omitted or softened in his abridgment of his longer work, the Historia Anglorum ( written about 1253 ), Paris's real feelings must have been an open secret.

Minors are still only allowed entry to the once secret cabinet in the presence of a guardian or with written permission.

Critics point to the fact that church leaders practiced polygamy in secret from 1833 to 1852, despite a written church doctrine ( Doctrine and Covenants 101, 1835 edition ) renouncing polygamy and stating that only monogamous marriages were permitted.

The prime suspects were the Bulgarian secret police: Georgi Markov had defected from Bulgaria some years previously and had subsequently written books and made radio broadcasts which were highly critical of the Bulgarian communist regime.

" Claudius believes this means that his secret memoirs will be one day found, and that he, having therein written the truth, will speak clearly, while his contemporaries, who had to distort their histories in order to appease the ruling family, will seem like stammerers.