Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN CARDINAL Karol Woytila was elected pope, Poles expected to have a strong champion beyond their government's reach. John Paul II did initially give strong support to the Solidarnosc movement and the Danzig agreements...
Many others were displaced by World War II. Deputy Chief of Correspondents William Mader left Hungary in 1944. Layout Artist Modris Ramans fled Latvia in 1945, the same year Reporter-Researcher Victoria Sales left the German- occupied city of Danzig, where she was born. Copy Processing's Lily Eszterag and Reporter-Researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo fled Hungary after Soviet troops crushed the 1956 revolution. A different upheaval, this one in Cuba, brought Reporter-Researcher Nelida Gonzalez-Alfonso to the U.S. in 1959, followed by Copy Processing's Osmar Escalona and Raquel Prieto and Reporter- Researcher Cristina Garcia...
...began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. At 5:45 a. m. the German training ship Schleswig-Holstein lying off Danzig fired what was believed to be the first shell: a direct hit on the Polish underground ammunition dump at Westerplatte. It was a grey day, with gentle rain...
...broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia. It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil, he determined on the complete subjugation of Poland...
...what is in store for the museum after the Danzig collection moves on in June? Provided it can come up with some display cases, part of that vast collection in the basement will go on exhibit in the upper floors. The scholarly machinery will continue humming as it has for a generation now. As Cross points out, scholars don't need display cases; they have been getting along perfectly well with the collection in the basement all this time. Without an attraction like "Danzig" and the high-gear publicity that accompanied it, will the general public bother to stop...