Behind closed the is drafted word.
Two delegations met in a windowless room above the Place des Nations. insisted on language that would indemnify neither party.
No communique was issued. No press received the file. The minutes were initialed in pencil and placed in storage.
The annex carried three corrections, two of them initialed by the under-secretary, and one written in that has never been formally translated.
A copy was carried out in a leather portfolio. It was not seen again until the inquiry, and then only in summary.
The room was kept at sixteen degrees. Tea cooled untouched. A clock with no second hand counted nothing visible. arrived at four.
By dawn three positions had moved. None of them were recorded as having moved.