Word: danzigers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Storm in a Mail Box," which has for some time been agitating the Free Citiy of Danzig* (TIME, Jan. 19) and has had sundry repercussions in Poland and Germany, flared up anew...
Last week, Mr. Macdonnell ruled that the Poles were not entitled to a separate mailbox service and therefore had no right to paint the Danzig mailboxes in the Polish colors...
Poles were furious. Appeal to the League of Nations at Geneva was lodged. The Polish Army Chiefs began to rattle their sabres. Polish business men said they would not participate in a forthcoming fair at Danzig...
...Free City of Danzig, with its territory, forms a corridor between Germany and its province of East Prussia and thus allows the Poles an economic outlet to the Baltic Sea. To Germans, the status quo is intolerable; to Poles, it is indispensable; thus, the former, by insidious propaganda, seek to restore the status quo ante; while the latter, by the same methods, seek to improve the status quo in favor of Poland...
...rotorship Buckau, first of its kind, set sail from Danzig for Leith, Scotland, with a cargo of lumber. The voyage is to be the first commercial test of this new type of wind-propelled ship. Its trip from Kiel to Danzig to take on cargo was productive of conflicting reports: some said the Buckau went by her wind; some, by means of her auxiliary engine...