Word: curzon
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Poland. Russia gets eastern Poland up to the Curzon line (with some minor adjustments "in Poland's favor"), and Poland will get German territory to the west and north. But Stalin agreed that his Lublin Government should be broadened by taking in "democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles abroad...
Prim, cautious Lord Templewood-whom the late, great Lord Curzon once characterized as "descended from a long line of maiden aunts"-did not go so far as to suggest that Franco, the Falange, the Army, the Church, the big landowners, or the aristocracy might have had something to do with Spain's plight. He found the villainy of Germany corrupting not only Spain but all Europe: "Posterity will say that the worst German crime is the studied destruction of all moral values of Europe...
Died. George Trumper, 70, hairdresser to the last three British Kings, proprietor of the topflight tonsorial Mayfair Shop on Curzon Street; in London. Barber Trumper, black razor case in hand, needed no special pass to enter Buckingham Palace regularly trimmed the present King's locks every ten days...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill had a Christmas present for the Poles-partition. To a House of Commons still seething with the Greek crisis, he announced that, with Britain's consent, Russia would extend her western frontier to the Curzon line. Poland would be compensated by about half of East Prussia, including Danzig, so that she would have a Baltic coast of some 200 miles (see map). She would also receive unspecified parts of eastern Germany to which Poland had historical claims. Presumably this meant parts of Silesia...
...Premier Stalin would not agree to coordinate the Red Army's operations with those of his western allies until he had a definite assurance that Britain would support Russia's claim to Polish territory as far west as the Curzon Line. . . In Teheran, Mr. Churchill and Premier Stalin divided Europe into spheres of British and Russian influence...