Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accused was Poland's towering knobby-knuckled Foreign Minister Josef Beck who steered Poland into her ten-year non-aggression pact with Germany (TIME, Feb. 3, 1934). Last week the German Press was so hopeful that Poland would deadlock the Council that even when Nazis in the Polish Corridor were mobbed and beaten by irate Poles no newspaper in Germany was allowed to print the fact. At Geneva cool Colonel Beck at the last minute cast Poland's vote with that of all Council members except abstaining Denmark to approve two measures...
...baiter Julius Streicher stopping last week in Berlin to lead ar anti-Semitic parade with brass bands down Unter den Linden. His gem: "After this election Danzig will know what to with your - Jews! . . . The Leader, as we all know, promised the Poles not to touch the Corridor for ten years, and he will keep his word as usual, but the hour will still come...
...Rauschning who as "Premier" of Danzig healed the long feud with Poland in 1933, thus setting an example which led to the ten-year pact in which Realmleader Hitler agreed not to invade the Polish Corridor adjoining Danzig. Last week Danzig Nazi gangsters hounded and harried candidates of other parties so mercilessly that Danzig Socialists and members of Danzig Catholic Center Party had to hold their political rallies just outside the Free City on Polish soil. Irish Sean Lester, the resident High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig, tried to uphold the right of free speech last week...
...Feuhrer asserted his wish for European peace, he emphasized, in the devious language of diplomacy, his determined opposition to any interference in the "natural relations" between Austria and Germany--a statement which will stick in the crop of Mussolini. Even more serious are the arrogant demands that the Polish Corridor be demolished, that part of Czeckoslovakia be returned, and that the Reich have an air force equal to the French. It is not to be expected that Hitler's seemingly altruistic notion of demanding a huge army to ward off the "red Monace" could deceive any of the negotiaters...
...patient? We almost forgot. He just sat down in the corridor to wait until someone should recover and leave...