Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the fall of Warsaw ancient and historic "Holy Poland" was again without a capital (see p. 32). However, through five centuries, half-a-dozen major wars and three partitions until Hitler & Stalin made the fourth, Poland has endured often as a burning ideal in the hearts of the Polish people rather than as a political fact. It was therefore no surprise last week when a brand new Polish Government popped up in Paris. At the Polish Embassy there it was announced that just before President Ignacy Moscicki fled from Poland to Rumania (TIME, Oct. 2) he secretly resigned...
...German Foreign Minister alighted, as he shook hands with the Soviet greeting committee and paced stiffly along inspecting his honor guard, the band merely tootled a Red Air Force ditty, Higher and Higher, which no Nazi was likely to recognize. As the Germans swept away in limousines at 6 p. m. the honor guard and band withdrew. Neither was left to greet the Estonian delegation of enforced capitulators who alighted a few minutes later at the same Moscow air field...
Baltic Pact. J. Stalin received A. Hitler's envoy at the Kremlin just five hours after he reached Moscow. Herr von Ribbentrop left a ballet performance of Swan Lake to go to the Dictator at 11 p. m. and they talked until 4 130 a. m. Seemingly this German intervention made no difference in the terms meted out to Estonia and signed two days later by Foreign Minister Selter & delegation...
...economic strain of war, even with abundant supplies available, was brought home to Britons last week by their war budget: income taxes up to 37½% (see p. 27). That kind of strain makes civilians impatient with the military. The impotent, halting performance of Britain's Ministry of Information nourished a growing suspicion that there was just hardly any good news to report. That, too, made the people impatient. They want to see action, to "get on with it." In this war's first 30 days, the only action Allied civilians saw was a creeping infantry advance...
That the British Cabinet was content, too, and the Liddell Hart plan or something like it firmly adopted, seemed proved last week when the Cabinet's most restless and rabidly anti-Hitler member, Winston Churchill, in reviewing the War's first month (see p. 55), called on his countrymen not only to rise above fear but also "above inconvenience and, perhaps most difficult of all, boredom...