Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaders. Poland is the amoeba of Europe. Since the Tenth Century the rhythm of its life has been grow, divide, grow, divide. The very first king to give Poland substantial nationhood (Boleslav, the Wry-mouthed, 1086-1139) split his inheritance between four sons. And the most recent man to contribute...
Within an hour of the Leader's death on May 12, 1935, 49-year-old Edward Smigly-Rydz* became Inspector-General (or Generalissimo) of the Army, Fourteen months later he had the Premier send out a circular to all Government ministries proclaiming him "Second Citizen" of the Republic, next in...
When real war finally came last week, it found, stretched across the northern fringe of Europe from Antwerp to Helsingfors, a tight-knit little band of neutrals, determined to keep their neutrality and to defend it, if need be, with force. Between Germany and France lay The Netherlands, Belgium, tiny...
To the neutrals between Germany and France the chief danger was that these two foes would try to get at each other through one of them.
One by one the neutrals received German assurances that their neutrality would be respected. Denmark, mindful of possible German claims on northern Schleswig-Holstein, was not too reassured by a German reference to "problems that may arise between us." In Copenhagen gas masks were issued and blood donors ordered to...