Word: french-polish
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Frederic Francois Chopin, Polish pianist-composer (of French-Polish parents) was Germanized by the same Nazis who have banned his music in occupied Poland since 1939. Chopin, they announced, was "of course German," a descendant of an old Alsatian family named Schopping...
...court seemed unsure of itself. It refused to let Daladier speak of French-Polish military agreements, and ruled that events long antedating the declaration of war were not subject to survey. But the men in Vichy had reason to crawl when Daladier read into the record that in 1934, Petain had refused to strengthen fortifications at Sedan (where German troops first broke through in May 1940), that it was Petain who in 1934 slashed a military appropriation from 600,000,000 to 400,000,000 francs, that the Supreme War Council had refused to consider new types of guns...
...Seven weeks later, before M. Bonnet made a speech in the Chamber of Deputies reaffirming the French-Polish alliance, he first called in German Ambassador Count Johannes von Welczeck to explain. The Ambassador reported to Berlin...
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