Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tragic Hour." There was no scorn in the reports of one expression of desire for peace. All week from Rome came stories that the Pope would propose a general conference, hoping to create a Catholic Polish buffer state between godless Russia and pagan Germany. But no proposal came. Instead, at ten o'clock one morning last week, before the Polish Ambassador, the Polish Primate and a large audience of Polish priests and nuns, the Pope walked to the throne in the Pontifical Palace of Castel Gandolfo, to offer words of consolation to "his children of Catholic Poland" in this...
...Continuing the arms embargo might make the Allies lose the war, deprive the U. S. of the nations which are now its buffer states against Fascism, leave the U. S. facing the Nazi-Soviet bloc across the Atlantic, force the U. S. to fight the next war caused by Fascist aggression. Rebuttal: The Atlantic is a broad ocean and the next war is not here...
...Buffer. There had been reports in highest Berlin and Moscow circles that a strip of Poland would be left as a "buffer state" between Russia and Germany. This was even mooted in an official Moscow broadcast. Brushing it aside, the High Commands decided that no sufficient Polish authority remained in Poland last week to form the nucleus of a useful buffer, that the only thing to do was to draw the technically strongest possible frontier, separating the Russian and German Armies by the physical expanse of three great Polish rivers, the Narew, the Vistula...
Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop handed Lithuania's Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys an ultimatum (in Berlin, as always), accompanied with the usual threats of invasion. Before long Foreign Minister Urbsys delivered Lithuania's acquiescence, agreed to sign a non-agression treaty which makes Lithuania a buffer State between the Reich and Poland and the Baltic nations...
...promised Mr. Eden $5,000 and expenses to address its Congress of American Industry (see p. 47), and he was in fine fettle when he arrived in Manhattan.* With him was his blue-eyed, brunette wife. In his party also was Ronald Tree, M.P., who served him as coach, buffer and expert on U. S. psychology. Ronald Tree is the Chicago-born grandson of Marshall Field. Thus guided, Anthony Eden endeared himself to street crowds, got along well with reporters. At the start of his speech at the Waldorf-Astoria, he said: ". . . This visit of mine . . . has no political significance...