Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Never Committed to Paper. [ARTICLE]

Never Committed to Paper.

Great care is taken in guarding a diplomatic secret. No government secret when first born is ever committed to paper, except/on the rare occasions, says London Tit-Bits, when minutes of a cabinet meeting are taken and forwarded to the king. Once our war cabinet has decided upon an important piece of foreign policy with a neutral country it has to be transmitted to our representative abroad, and for the first time the secret is put In writing in the form of unintelligible cipher, the key to which Js already in the hands of our ambassador. The men who draw up these intricate cipher codes are reliable officials employed by the government, and they often obtain from £SOO to £7OO for a single code.