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Ready in the East. In the Middle East, in Syria and Iraq and Persia, men in the British Ninth and Tenth Armies are also waiting. There, too, are the Poles of the Carpathian Brigade, who after the defeat of Poland sifted through the Carpathian Mountains, or through Russia or Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey and finally into the Middle East. Some of them have already fought with the Eighth Army. Now they are part of the new Polish army in Iraq. After nearly four years, they are eager for the battle to begin...
...history student knows that in 1915 the Russians tried to cross the Carpathian Mountains into the plain of Hungary and that they were unsuccessful. Very few know that among the defenders was an Austrian infantry officer, Hans Kohn, who three decades later would be teaching government at the Harvard University Summer School. Though the Russians were turned back, he and his company were captured and were sent as prisoners of war to a summer Cossack camp in Turkestan...
Rumania. Passing through the twilight gloom of the Kazan defile, 100 miles east of Belgrade, Hitler would soon reach the historic Iron Gate, separating the Balkan and the Carpathian ranges. There, on the western border of Rumania, he might meet his stooge, General Ion Antonescu. The General's report would be grim...
...vanquished armies, acquired his double-barreled name when army companions nicknamed him "Smigly" (nimble) to describe his particular qualities. After 18 days of fighting, with Hitler's Army snapping at his heels, the nimble Marshal quit the field and skipped across to Rumania, where dignified internment in the Carpathian village of Tasmana enabled him to pursue in comfort his hobbies of gardening and landscape painting...
Another figure from the past who reappeared was Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Poland's rusted little iron man and chief of her vanquished Army, who deserted his fighting troops and skipped across to Rumania a jump ahead of the German Army. From his Carpathian mountain villa, where he had led a life of dignified internment, the Gestapo hauled him to Bucharest for investigation in connection with alleged espionage and sabotage in Rumania, said to involve 7,000 refugee Poles...