Word: germane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers for 30 divisions, but no uniforms; these are being hastily made up. Last week General Sikorski, after instructing his Finance Minister Colonel Adam Koc to try to get from Britain and France part of some $46,000,000 which they agreed to loan to Poland just as the German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard Daladier, told him he planned to recruit at least 125,000 Poles to fight with the French. "Europe must be made over," declared Premier Sikorski, "in such a way as to restore independence and security to the oppressed nations: Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...Berlin meanwhile the German Institute For Bank Research and Science turned out a report showing that 43% of the shares in Polish corporations are held by foreign capital. France is stuck with an investment of 391,000,000 zlotys ($60,610,000); the U. S. with 277,000,000 zlotys ($52,630,000); and the German stake was 251,000,000 zlotys. In the Soviet part of partitioned Poland all capital investments will probably be taken over by Moscow soon, but most of Polish industry is in the German sector and up to this week Berlin had not tampered with...
...system of rationing by food cards was working so cumbrously in German cities last week that standing in long queues before food shops became the rule. Special red cards, permitting the holder to go at once to the head of the queue, were issued by the Nazi Party Peoples Welfare Department to "pregnant women, the lame and mothers rich in children...
...Berlin the six weeks' course at the Nazi Party School for Brides was cut to four weeks and any German recruit was permitted to marry without the usual lengthy investigation of his race and ancestry on simple presentation of his mobilization card. To keep open as many hospital beds as possible for wounded soldiers, German doctors were ordered to deliver pregnant women at home rather than in hospitals for the duration of the war, except desperate cases of obstetric complications...
...ersatz (substitute) front, teenage German girls were sent out to gather "herbs from which substitute tea can be made...