Word: lithuania
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...speech Herr Hitler scored the League of Nations which last week was making things warm for Dictator Mussolini. Declared the German Dictator: "Memel was stolen from Germany and the robbery legalized by the League of Nations!" Indicating that for the present he will not try to seize Memel from Lithuania, Orator Hitler characteristically waved his olive branch: "There can be only one yardstick for our conduct, our great, unshakable love for peace...
...Germany will sign non-aggression treaties with all her neighbors except Lithuania (from whom she is now trying to wrest the city of Memel) because Germany cannot enter into political treaties with a State which disregards the most primitive laws of human society...
...Open to all," refrained Laval, Stalin and Litvinoff over & over, "open to all," for the benefit of Adolf Hitler who had said last month that he would gladly put Germany into precisely that sort of arrangement. Other presumptive invitees: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. The new instrument dropped the mutual assistance clause of the abandoned Eastern Locarno Pact. It was in effect a "do-nothing" trap for aggressors, within the framework of the League of Nations. It left the way open for member nations to pair off in treaties of mutual assistance. It ignored such complications as the facts that...
Post-War nations which have seared each other with the hottest hate are Lithuania and Poland. Reason: a swashbuckling corps of Polish officers seized Vilna in 1920 and Poland still holds that city, whereas the Constitution of Lithuania opened then and still opens with the sentence: "The capital of Lithuania is Vilna...
...promptly interprets any major political development in terms of the emotions of Poland's beloved Dictator, gruff, walrus-mustached Marshal Josef Pilsudski, major interest was aroused by a remark dropped by one of the Marshal's aides: "Sentimental reasons,among others, prompt him to make peace with Lithuania. His old mother, whom he loved with passionate devotion and gratitude, lies buried on Lithuanian soil. He himself grows old and he cannot visit her grave so long as the Polish-Lithuanian frontier remains closed and relations continue strained...