Show one woman who knows secrets and keeps them THERE T HERE Is only one woman in the united states who has knowledge of international ter events before they happen her name Is Al margaretm Margar argaret efM ina hanna she is the confidential secretary and assistant of the second assistant secretary of state alvey A adee who is ia you CAN the only permanent official of high YES KEE P rank in the department INDEED T no matter who may be the executive head of the department and regardless U 19 gard less of whether the administration is democratic or republican the course of the foreign office is steered by mr adee all of the diplomatic affairs are managed by him the complex 0 unwritten code called international law is to him familiar in its every paragraph and he has all precedents at his fingers ends but it goes without saying that such business involves an immense amount of detail which is where the peculiar and exceptional talent of miss hanna comes into play she takes all that part of the work off mr addes hands to him she is like a card catalogue to a librarian and quite a bit more in addition incidentally to her duties she helps to prepare many state papers that are in the last degree confidential in character she is the custodian of many an important secret affecting the welfare of the country but from her point of view this is merely a part of the days work she forgets the secret automatically when she leaves the office and goes home it has baa often been said that a woman cannot keep a secret perhaps most women cannot holding that belief wrongly or rightly the department of state prefers not to employ them in confidential capacities but the rule Is broken in miss hannas case she knows how to keep a secret and the government of the united states is ia willing to bank on her relia reliability billiy in this regard |