Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cawley felt that the real reason for Russia's attempt to conquer Finland was that this little country would make a very valuable buffer state against the growing power of Germany. But if Russia moves on and attacks the Aaland Islands it would then seem evident that Sweden and Norway were Russia's real goal...
...Poles who now live in the annexed provinces will also be stuffed into the buffer...
...buffer State between the Soviet Union and the Reich, "protected" by Germany and about one-third the size of what was Poland before Sept. 1, will be formed around Warsaw. Government: to be announced...
...Czestochowa, famous for its Black Madonna shrine, and Cracow, where the Polish kings are buried, will be allowed to remain in the buffer State as a mark of German respect for Polish religious and patriotic feelings...
...Duce still had one good card in his hand. If he could persuade Adolf Hitler to give up a sizable chunk of Poland for a buffer state, and present this offer to Britain and France as Germany's concession for peace, he still had a chance-though a long one-of becoming the Peacemaker of Europe, and of taking as his commission therefor some Mediterranean and African concessions. With some such proposition Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano flew to Berlin to see Adolf Hitler this week. Abruptly-after barely 24 hours and only one talk with Herr Hitler...