Word: curzon
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...empire that history had ever seen-to end the British Raj, the grand and guilty edifice built and maintained by William Hawkins and Robert Clive, Warren Hastings and the Marquess Wellesley, the brawling editor James Silk Buckingham and the canny merchant Lord Inchcape, and by the great Viceroys, austere Curzon and gentle Halifax. The Raj was finished: scarcely a voice in Britain spoke against independence; scarcely an Indian wanted the British to stay; scarcely a leader in India questioned the sincerity of Britain's intention to get out. The only questions were "when...
Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
Poland. "The Russian claim . . . has always been unchanged for the Curzon Line in the east, and the Russian offer has always been that ample compensation should be gained for Poland at the expense of Germany in the north and west. ... I assert with the utmost conviction the broad justice of the policy upon which, for the first time, all the three great Allies have now taken their stand. ... A most sovereign declaration has been made by Marshal Stalin and the Soviet Union that the sovereign independence of Poland is to be maintained, and this decision is now joined...
...soil there should be a Polish administration regardless of the opinions that may be expressed at the international [Big Three] conference''. He added that he did not believe that any of the Allies "will be willing to interfere." (This week the Big Three agreed on a modified Curzon Line and, more vaguely, on territorial compensation for Poland in Germany...
...purge also involved Poles east of the Curzon line. There, in territories annexed by the Russians, all Poles were being uprooted. Those who were loyal to Warsaw were sent to Poland. Those who were loyal to London were sent to Russia...