Word: ending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister stood on the railway station of a provincial city in a foreign country, quarreling so bitterly that newspaper correspondents watching feared blows might bring their tragedy to an ignoble climax. Abruptly Smigly-Rydz turned, walked away. The Foreign Minister stood irresolute for a moment, walked to the other end of the platform, to be interned a few days later, like Smigly-Rydz, by the Rumanian Government. Despairingly Warsaw fought on; the ghost of Poland would haunt Europe for many a season; but their Poland was dead...
Record. Austria and Czecho-Slovakia did not fight and received no mercy; Poland fought. The third European republic to end within the last year and a half, it had much to fight for. Finicky Westerners complained that Poland's democracy was superficial, Leftists bedazzled by propaganda about collective farms sympathized with its poor peasantry. But Poland had a record of social progress which, in terms of her initial difficulties, seemed as imposing as those of Europe's totalitarian States. Its Sejm, or Parliament, looked feeble compared to London or Washington. But it was Jeffersonian compared to the drilled...
...rebuilding of 15 years of Republican Germany to take advantage of when Fascists seized power; Poland's rulers inherited ruins. Communist Russia had immeasurably vaster resources to begin with, and her rulers had the total confiscated wealth of the nation. But when Poland was set up at the end of World War I the area it took over had lost...
...Baron von Weizsacker: "I was impressed by one thing, namely Baron von Weizsacker's detachment and calm. He seemed very confident and professed to believe that Russian assistance to the Poles would not only be entirely negligible but that the U. S. S. R. would even, in the end, join in sharing in the Polish spoils. Nor did my insistence on the inevitability of British intervention seem to move...
...said there had been an other case of castration. Among the points mentioned by Herr Hitler were: That the only winner of another European war would be Japan ; that he was by nature an artist, not a politician, and once the Polish question had been settled he would end his life as an artist not as a warmonger; he did not want to turn Germany into nothing but a military barracks and he would only do so if forced to do so; that once the Polish question was settled, he himself would settle down...