Huddling Place----Clifford D. Simak(36)

Webster slid back a panel in the machine, spun a pair of dials, heard the hum of power surge into a screen that blocked out the room.
"Secrecy established," he said.
The white flare snapped out and a man sat across the desk from him. A man he had seen many times before in televised addresses, in his daily paper.
Henderson, president of the World Committee.
"I have had a call from Clayborne," said Henderson.