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Morning after, weary Warsawites read in their papers that while their capital was being "attacked" Herr Hitler and M. Lipski had had a most amicable conversation in Berlin. They kept off the subject of the Polish Corridor which Germany would like to have and Poland is resolved to keep. In purely general but significant terms they issued a communique which, while binding nobody, contained an oral non-aggression pledge. "Germany and Poland," they declared, "renounce any use of force in their mutual relations...
...grade (equivalent of a U. S. seventh grade) while his seven-year-old sister Svetlana is in the first grade (U. S. second). They go to school, not in a Government limousine, but as their mother used to travel, in Moscow's overcrowded tramcars. In the main floor corridor they daily see an heroic picture of their great father but they get no special privileges at School...
...attention which was once devoted solely to the Polish Corridor has, this year, shifted spasmodically but over more frequently to the Anschluss, a term which includes almost any sort of union between Germany and Austria. Europe has been losing many hours of sleep over this question, not simply as a subject for disinterested betting as to whether or not the merger would be effected, but because its completion would undoubtedly mean war. For despite nonchalant reports to the contrary, neither France nor Italy have the slightest intention of allowing the Anschluss...
Normally at the harvest season East Prussia imports laborers from adjoining Poland. This year 24,000 Prussian unemployed have been bundled into trains, shipped across the Polish Corridor in freight cars of the German State Railways, and put to work in East Prussia. Making much of this achievement Premier Göring has encouraged Berlin newspapers to print stories about how he and his protege, Governor Erich Koch of East Prussia, have there "performed the miracle of ending unemployment...
...time by either Dictator Stalin or Dictator Pilsudski. Last year M. Zaleski was replaced by Foreign Minister Beck, a "Pilsudski Colonel," reputed a swashbuckler. Momentarily the Polish-Russian rapprochement seemed to go glimmering. But Adolf Hitler, with his tirades against Marxism and his itch to have back the Polish Corridor, played straight into Comrade Litvinov's hands. Last week while Colonel Beck lavished congratulations on the roly-poly Russian, demoted "Briand of the North" Zaleski watched with quiet satisfaction from his vantage point as president of Warsaw's largest private bank. In Moscow the official Press purported...