Word: counts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing the Pilsudski game for all it was worth. Having recently visited Führer Hitler at Berchtesgaden, entertained German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at Warsaw and signed a commercial treaty and reaffirmed a non-aggression pact with Soviet Russia, Colonel Beck played host to Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. It was reported that Colonel Beck lent an interested ear to Count Ciano's talk about Italy's colonial "aspirations" (at the expense of France) in the Mediterranean. Some diplomatic correspondents even reported that Italy was ready to cut Poland in for some of France...
...raided by Nazi gangs. The reaction was violent and sustained. At Poznań, Polish students retaliated by stoning a German library. At Warsaw 1,000 students paraded, shouted "Down with Germany!", made their way to the German Embassy on Pius XI Street and broke several windows. Even after Count Ciano arrived the anti-German demonstrations continued, and there were shouts of "Down with the Rome-Berlin axis...
Hungarian politics took a fantastic turn fortnight ago when anti-Semitic Premier Béla von Imrédy resigned, ostensibly because he had discovered that he was one-eighth Jewish, actually because he was too willing a Nazi stooge to suit the independent Magyars. Last week his successor, Count Paul Teleki, erstwhile Boy Scout leader, made more confusing news. Having announced that he would support the brutal anti-Semitic laws planned by Dr. Imrédy and that he was in agreement with the "peaceful aims of the Rome-Berlin axis," the Teleki Government promptly ordered police to round...
While the strong right hand of the Teleki Government was cracking down on the Nazis, the dexterous left hand went on signing up with them. In Budapest, Hungary's Foreign Minister Count Stefan Ćsáky signed the anti-Comintern pact with representatives of Italy, Japan and Germany at the very moment the raids were in progress. In this Alice in Wonderland atmosphere, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop wired congratulations to Hungary on its adherence to "the pact ... for fighting the subversive elements which threaten world peace...
...second period started out slowly, but the Mooneymen soon found the range and also limited the visiting Crimson to seven field goals and two fouls. The home aggregation ran its lead from 40 to 32 to 55 to 34 with Lutz the only man able to count. Legg and Ruml sank free throws to end the game...