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...Soviet-Polish alliance against the Germans. Says Miko lajczyk: "I want a strong and friendly Russia for the same reason." But the only signs of compromise had come from the Poles. Moscow held rigidly as ever to its demands, underscoring them again this week with the declaration that the "Curzon Line" (see map), well inside pre-1939 Poland, must be the basis of settlement...
...exhausted armies lunged feebly at each other, Lord Curzon, on behalf of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers, suggested a mutually satisfactory line of demarcation, resolving as best it could the impossible ethnographic interming-lings left over after 1,000 years of strife. Neither side would listen. In the end the Poles were able to dictate a peace at Riga in 1921, establishing an eastern frontier which lasted until 1939 and the fourth partition of Poland...
...period of small-scale unoffical wars which followed World War I, no territorial settlement led to so much actual fighting or violent controversy as did the definition of Poland's boundaries. Then it was the Russians who were weak and the Poles, who disregarding the ethnologically just "Curzon Line" drawn at the peace conference, swept into Russia's easternmost provinces and incorporated them by the treaty of Riga in 1921. It is this Treaty which Stalin denounced after Sikorski's rejection of the Polish Soviet Treaty of 1939, which reestablished the border at the Bug River...
...lofty St. Paul's she bowed her head before the ornate sarcophogi of Nelson and Wellington; in a cavernous bomb shelter (8,000 capacity) she was particularly interested in the children's toothbrush rack. When she got to the Red Cross's Washington Club on Curzon Street, the American doughboys greeted her with shouts of "Hi, Eleanor." In a short speech in the cafeteria-filled with the good smell of hot coffee and doughnuts-she made a motherly promise to the troops: warmer socks and faster mail. She left to see the rest of the country...
...Allies," said Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon after World War I, "floated to victory on a wave of oil." To the mechanized armies of World War II, oil is life and death, has become the single most decisive "weapon...