Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most potent daily, the Berliner Tageblatt. Shrewdly Tageblatt had raised a rumpus about an innocuous pact of non-aggression now being negotiated between Russia and Poland. Did that mean the end of Russo-German friendship? Did it mean Russian support for the Treaty of Versailles and the Polish Corridor? Germany must know! Stalin must speak! ? such was the smart Tageblatt-Ludwig gate-crashing approach. Stalin spoke...
...march. Surely, in one course at least, the history of the past could be made the corollary of an avowed intensive study of the present. To trace back the causes of present events to authoritative sources in the past is, after all, only traversing the same corridor in an opposite direction, backed by the impetus of living data...
...Borah (faltering)-Well, I think it might not be proper; I think there was a condition there, existing prior to that time, which needed consideration. . . . I would change the Polish Corridor if it was [sic] possible to do so; and I would change the situation with reference to Upper Silesia if I could...
Americans would understand. But in Europe, they do not understand this giant of the Senate, his primitive background, and incalculable idealism. In Europe they believe that all politicians are realists. Non-partisan experts have said for years that debts and reparations should be cancelled, that the Polish Corridor was an invention of the devil, but these honest opinions in the mouth of a politician are for Europe nothing short of deadly weapons of aggression. Warsaw's newssheets shouted "Borah, a German Agent," the mildest adjective that Paris papers found for him was "naïve." Intentionally...
...Borah's diplomatic encounters were not yet over. He attended the French Embassy reception in honor of the Premier, and there Ambassador Tytus Filipowicz of Poland seized him by the buttonhole. Mr. Borah is no man to retreat. He repeated his opinions on the Polish Corridor, but added by way of diplomacy that he did not pretend to be completely informed. Ambassador Filipowicz drew himself up in his diplomatic uniform, with all his decorations jangling, and made the retort courteous: "I congratulate you, Senator, on your moral courage-in admitting the incompleteness of your knowledge...