Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within an hour of the Leader's death on May 12, 1935, 49-year-old Edward Smigly-Rydz* became Inspector-General (or Generalissimo) of the Army, Fourteen months later he had the Premier send out a circular to all Government ministries proclaiming him "Second Citizen" of the Republic, next in rank in every way to the President, who by the Constitution was Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Last week the President signed his own superiority away. Marshal Smigly-Rydz was made Commander-in-Chief, was designated successor to the Presidency in case of vacancy before the war ends. President...
...defend it, if need be, with force. Between Germany and France lay The Netherlands, Belgium, tiny Luxembourg, and, south of the Westwall and Maginot Lines, Switzerland. All of them were ruled by Napoleon, liberated by Wellington. Along the North and Baltic Seas, where the British and German Navies may meet, were Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Together these eight countries might turn the balance of power in Europe. None of them wanted...
...neutrals received German assurances that their neutrality would be respected. Denmark, mindful of possible German claims on northern Schleswig-Holstein, was not too reassured by a German reference to "problems that may arise between us." In Copenhagen gas masks were issued and blood donors ordered to register at hospitals...
...May 5. In Warsaw Foreign Minister Josef Beck said to his Parliament: "I hear demands for annexation of Danzig. . . . I get no reply to our proposal ... of a common guarantee of the existence and rights of the Free City. . .. We have given to the German Reich all railway facilities, we have allowed its citizens to travel without customs or passport formalities from the Reich to East Prussia. . . . But we have . . . no grounds whatever for restricting our sovereignty on our own territory. . . . We in Poland do not know the conception of peace at any price...
...from 10 Downing St., Mr. Chamberlain broadcast in a tired monotone to the British people: "This country is at war with Germany. . . . May God bless you all and may He defend the right...