Word: breslau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which Americans might as well pronounce woof) is 285 years old, and nobody knows the troubles it's seen. When the Big Three gave the Polish city of Lwów to Russia, the University lost its home. It found a new home by crossing Poland to Breslau, a German city which the Big Three gave to Poland in exchange for Lwow...
Last week 1 ,300 pinch-faced Polish men & women were studying at Breslau (now called Wroclaw) at the onetime German university. Biggest difficulty: the university at Breslau had no books in Polish, only in German. Groused one student: "Here I am, a boy from Lwów, at a Polish university, after a war which the Germans lost-and I must learn German before I can study...
...bill. What Poland lost to the Russians was about half again as large in area as what she got from the Germans. But the new Polish territory ripped from Germany, stretching to within 35 miles of Berlin, included coal and iron in German Silesia, the transportation centers of Breslau and Küstrin and some 200 miles of Baltic seacoast, with the great port of Danzig and Berlin's seaport, Stettin. In industrial value, at least, Poland was the gainer; what Russia had taken from her was largely agricultural...
Died. Adolf Cardinal Bertram, 86, outspoken anti-Nazi Archbishop of Breslau and dean of the German Catholic hierarchy, whose tireless resistance to Hitler's "neopaganism" was climaxed last March in his defiance of orders to evacuate Breslau before the advancing Russians; presumably in Breslau. His death left the College of Cardinals with 40 members-fewest in 144 years...
After that, everybody forgot all about the cracle from the London School of Economics. But his original prediction turned out to be true, if not in quite the way Finer had expected. The Russians by-passed Breslau, and it didn't finally end its resistance until...