Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris prominent Poles said that as soon as their Government can get together enough money to keep going* it expects to remove to a small inexpensive provincial town "somewhere in Normandy." Meanwhile the Government stayed at the tiny Danube Hotel, worked last week from 7 a. m. right around the clock to 3 a. m., employed Poet Jan Lehon as its Press Officer. In London arrived Mme Josef Pilsudski, widow of the late great Marshal, "the Father of Modern Poland" whom Adolf Hitler professes to respect. Snapped the Widow Pilsudski last week: "No one believes Hitler's speeches...
...hitch about the papers mean? Was Russia just going to march in without treaty formalities? With only a few minutes to spare, the Soviet Minister to Estonia finally drove up to the Foreign Office, ratifications were exchanged and Foreign Minister Karl Selter expressed his perspiring relief. Next thing M. Selter knew, the Soviet Union calmly demanded an extra Red Army base in Estonia not mentioned in the Treaty...
...departing Foreign Minister Munters was not simply packed off home by air as Mr. Selter had been. The Moscow railway station was decked with Latvian and Soviet flags, a Red Army guard of honor snapped to salute and a Soviet band was provided, possibly because the Dictator rather likes M. and Mme Munters, both of whom speak Russian. He gave them a party in Moscow some years...
...Viceroy can declare war, but to put India's resources and men back of Britain he must have the support of the emaciated Mahatma M. K. Gandhi who holds no office but whose word is nevertheless virtual law to millions of potentially troublesome Hindus. In the last war India sent some 1,338,620 men to battle areas, all paid for out of the Indian Treasury, not to mention the wealth and materials that poured toward London. By last week some detachments of Indian troops had been sent already to Malaya and Egypt at no expense to the British...
...reinforced Soviet garrisons. Afghanistan is the northern gateway to India. From Shanghai came a story of Russian troops in China's Sinkiang Province and a fantastic suggestion that they might threaten India via the trackless 16,000-ft. high plateau of Tibet. Few Indian leaders, and certainly not M. K. Gandhi, would care to exchange their British masters for Joseph Stalin...