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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heavy Industry: Lazar M. Kaganovich...
Army Commander: Lt. General E. M. Van den Bergen...
...afternoon Commons had been sitting, pondering 16 emergency measures, including war credits of $2,500,000,000, extending conscription to men from 18 to 41, giving the Government control over trade with the enemy. Same day the Ministry of Transport took over the nation's railroads. At 6 p. m. the Prime Minister began to speak. This time he had something...
...M-Day. Early one afternoon a large crowd of common workmen walked briskly through the streets of Warsaw, stopping beside clear spaces on walls every few paces, slopping paste on the walls, spreading out four posters which spelled one word: WAR. One ordered general mobilization (all able-bodied men between 21 and 40), another the prompt delivery of all motor vehicles, bicycles and horses to the State, a third prohibited the sale of alcoholic drinks. The fourth, picturing marching men, guns, tanks, planes and the handsome profile of Poland's Commander-in-Chief Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, declared: "Force must...
...m., at the gates of the Foreign Office just off Marshal Pilsudski Square, a tall man dressed in black stooped to read one of the posters pasted low on the wall. Passersby began to notice him. By the time he straightened up a crowd was around him. "Beck! Beck!" they cried, cheering and clapping. Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland, smiled, touched his hat, and disappeared into the Foreign Office...