Word: galicia
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Borderland. The Ukrainian districts of Eastern Europe constitute a huge hunk of southeastern Poland (Galicia), a narrow slice of northern Rumania (northern Bessarabia), the eastern tip of Czecho-Slovakia (Ruthenia) and the most fertile and second most populous of the eleven major constituent states of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Ukrainian S.S.R.). No great loss would it be for Czechoslovakia to lose undeveloped Ruthenia, with only 550,000 inhabitants, to a Hitler-inspired "Greater Ukraine." Rumania also could well survive after her Ukrainian districts, with 800,000 inhabitants, had been detached. For Poland, however, the loss of eastern Galicia...
...discernible signs of separatist feeling have come from the Soviet Ukraine. Stalinist purges seem to have taken no more lives in the Ukraine than in some other parts of Russia. The same, however, cannot be said of Poland, where Ukrainian deputies recently were bold enough to demand autonomy for Galicia. The Nazi agitation for redistribution of land is likely to appeal to impoverished, disenfranchised, long-suffering Galician peasants. The Polish feudal rulers, caught between Naziism in the West and Communism in the East, are more likely, when faced with a final choice, to choose Hitler than Stalin...
...insurrection in Galicia, supported by German guns, would burst out, and Poland would suddenly be faced with the alternative of surrender or war. If Poland (plus France and Russia) went to war with Germany, there is at least a 50-50 chance that Germany would win. Britain, having shown little interest in any further Eastern European developments, might choose to sit this war out with Italy. The Balkans might sit it out with Hungary, which is being Nazified as fast as Hitler can do it. Hitler's Push to the East thus has a pretty good chance of pushing...
Cellist Feuermann, born in a family of musicians at Kolomea, Galicia, started to play the cello at the age of seven, played it in concerts at eleven, and at 16 taught it as a professor at the Cologne Conservatory. Ousted by Nazis from his position as teacher in Berlin's Hochschule für Musik in 1933, he embarked on two world tours, was nailed on four continents as one of the greatest living virtuosos. While traveling, Cellist Feuermann never lets his $30,000 Stradivarius cello out of his sight, always buys an extra berth for it when forced...
Softspoken, studious Francisco Franco Bahamonde is no university man. He was born in Galicia 45 years ago, son of the commandant of the Ferrol naval base. In the tradition of a thoroughly militaristic family, elder Brother Nicolas went into the navy, second son Francisco went into the Infantry Academy at Toledo's Alcazar at the age of 14. In due time youngest brother Ramon Franco went into the aviation service. Shockheaded, wild-eyed Brother Ramon Franco was the first member of the family to make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop...