Word: nationalistice
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The prospect of bloody skirmishes with the highly nationalistic and traditionally anti-Russian Poles must also daunt Moscow. Although outmanned by Soviet forces on its border and hindered by outdated arms and equipment, the 210,000-man Polish army might put up some resistance. Says a Western diplomat in Warsaw...
The military, diplomatic and economic price of any invasion-no matter how successfully executed -would be incalculable. Intensely nationalistic, the Poles have resisted foreign domination throughout their history, rising up against Tsarist rule in 1794 and 1830 and against the Nazis in 1944. Some units of the large (210,000...
Hopper belonged to the first generation of artists whose work voted for secession from Paris. In 1927 he stated his belief that "now or in the near future"-the caution was typical of the man-"American art should be weaned from its French mother." But by the end of the...
Almost nothing is known of his private life. The few Westerners who have met him have been struck by his shrewdness and tough-mindedness, as well as his utter lack of humor. To be a Pole, almost by definition, is to be fervently nationalistic and Roman Catholic, but Kania seems...
David Schoenbrun, a former CBS bureau chief in Paris, met De Gaulle and other Resistance figures during the war, when he was a young U.S. military intelligence officer. He has interviewed the surviving intelligence leaders, among the most notable of whom is Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, who, as Hedgehog, ran the...