Word: danzig
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...reached Berlin, he had to admit having talked with some people (including British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and French Premier Edouard Daladier) who thought there might be a war. "I myself," he said, "do not believe it, or my family would not be here." If invited to arbitrate the Danzig dispute, he said, he would gladly accept...
...week saw the great offensive of Europe's new war. It is the war of menace and mystery, of hysteria, panic, rumor, aimed at shattering an enemy's morale as big guns shatter a fort. Last week saw the biggest battle of the war-the battle of Danzig on the Vistula, where Nazi forces had been stalemated four months by the imperturbable resistance of its Polish defenders...
...last week's offensive had the sweep of a great military campaign. Resistance to it had a kind of heroism in its stolid refusal to give way to alarm. As the week wore on the grand strategy of the Axis high command became clear. Main objective was Danzig, on which the German press poured a steady fire. But as Grant pounded Richmond while Sherman swept through the South in a wide circle, the great offensive in the war of nerves was launched simultaneously on two fronts: Poland was attacked by the main army while in the Balkans assaults, feints...
...Poland did not give way. In seven days incidents and insults mounted to staggering proportions. A Polish soldier was shot because he blundered over the invisible line, as deadly as a high tension wire, that separates Poland and Danzig; two customs officers were hauled in by Danzig police; a Polish passport office was raided...
...although Germany swung troops into Slovakia, P'o-land's Ambassador to the U. S., Count Jerzy Potocki, summed up Polish feeling in Washington: "Just as surely as you see me sitting here there will be a general war if Germany attempts to change the status of Danzig." Member of one of the few great Polish landowning families that fought for Polish independence, blond, fox-hunting Count Potocki had been so completely tagged as Washington's leading diplomatic socialite that his grim warning surprised reporters. Said Count Potocki: "Herr von Ribbentrop created Europe's crisis...