Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gdynia, only 13 miles from Danzig, President Ignacy Moscicki delivered a nine-minute patriotic speech which thrilled his country. "The Baltic seacoast, Pomorze [the Polish Corridor] and our two ports, Gdynia and Danzig, are the air and sun of our national life and the basis of our political and economic independence," said the 72-year-old former professor of electrochemistry who has been Poland's President for the last 13 years. "Through this narrow gate, through a small strip of seacoast, is done three-quarters of our business with foreign nations. This is our free unhindered...
...Danzig by Germany would mean no more than another Hitler conquest, another large Baltic seaport (of which Germany already has three), another 791 sq. mi. and 407,000 more Germans added to the Reich. To Poland the loss of Danzig would probably eventually mean the loss of the Polish Corridor and landlocked economic if not political domination by Germany...
...Anastasio Somoza, in the U. S. on a canal-selling and sightseeing trip, found a certain drawback to visiting-in-state. Said he: "They do things differently here. . . . In the White House, when I wanted to see my wife, I had to leave my room, go down a long corridor, and into another room to find her. Now in my own country, I don't have to do that...
...disclosed that he had "proposed" to Poland that the Free City of Danzig, now under the League of Nations and the Polish customs union, be returned as a free state to the Reich and that Poland cede Germany a road and a railway right-of-way through the Polish Corridor. In return, Germany promised to recognize Polish economic rights in Danzig, assure Poland a free harbor in Danzig, conclude a new non-aggression treaty to last 25 years-which, Herr Hitler assured his deputies, would "extend far beyond the duration of my own life." Poland's answer...
Commenting on the latest developments in the Polish Corridor question, he went on to say that Josef Bock, Poland's Foreign Minister has provided Hitler with a way out of the trouble by offering to discuss the solution to the problem on equal terms...