If republicanism is to survive in Britain it needs to get over such knee-jerk reactions and recognize the visual cunning that is monarchy's secret weapon.

如果共和主义要在英国生存，就要克服这种下意识的反应，认识到这种表面上的狡猾是君主制的秘密武器。

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Early in the second world war, Britain took its time to let America into the secrets of Ultra, the decryption of German secret communications by code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

第二次世界大战的早期，英国花时间让美国获知了Ultra的机密，这是电码译者在Bletchley Park破译的德国机密通信的译码。

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Britain wants to try him for the murder by radioactive poisoning of an exiled ex-secret policeman, Alexander Litvinenko, in London.

英国想在伦敦为流亡的前秘密警察亚历山大·李特维年科(Alexander Litvinenko)遭放射性中毒谋杀案对他进行审判。

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"A secret inquiry conducted by a clutch of grandees, handpicked by the prime minister is not what Britain needs.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

The prime minister has been running a campaign suggesting that the Tories have a secret agenda to pull Britain out of Europe and want a "no" vote in the UK because it could have precisely that effect.

BBC: Analysis

So the underlying suggestion will be that those defectors are not simply demanding a tougher line on Europe - which he claims he is already offering - but that they have a secret agenda to pull Britain out of the EU altogether.

BBC: Analysis

Moreover, it was Mr Qaddafi not western powers who initiated the secret bargaining with America and Britain that led to his weapons disclosure.

ECONOMIST: Libya