Word: ermeland
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...ostensibly to "take the cure" at a sanatorium for nervous diseases in Druskieniki on the Lithuanian frontier. Rumors spread that the Marshal's notoriously irresolute brain was tottering. Then his personal jingoist news organ Armed Poland flaunted a demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain of the military seizure demanded by Armed Poland. When...
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