Word: partes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expatriate Government of Poland set up in Paris (TIME, Oct. 9).* He has enough Polish officers for 30 divisions, but no uniforms; these are being hastily made up. Last week General Sikorski, after instructing his Finance Minister Colonel Adam Koc to try to get from Britain and France part of some $46,000,000 which they agreed to loan to Poland just as the German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard Daladier, told him he planned to recruit at least 125,000 Poles to fight with the French. "Europe must be made over," declared Premier Sikorski, "in such...
...shares in Polish corporations are held by foreign capital. France is stuck with an investment of 391,000,000 zlotys ($60,610,000); the U. S. with 277,000,000 zlotys ($52,630,000); and the German stake was 251,000,000 zlotys. In the Soviet part of partitioned Poland all capital investments will probably be taken over by Moscow soon, but most of Polish industry is in the German sector and up to this week Berlin had not tampered with Polish stock setups. The Soviet press tauntingly charged last week that "probably" members of the Government which fled from...
...seized in 1920 by Poland and thus has now passed into Soviet hands be "restored." The Moscow radio announced that "the workers of Wilno wish to belong to the Soviet Fatherland and not to Lithuania!" As the negotiations continued, there was talk in Moscow that Russia would return a part of the city and province of Wilno to Lithuania...
Accompanied by Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, and Heinrich Himmler, Chief of Secret Police, Victor Hitler drove through the wreckage to a reviewing stand set up in the least damaged part of the city, the diplomatic sector. There he stood from 12:30 until 2:30 as picked troops goose-stepped past...
...London, Prime Minister Chamberlain announced that the Admiralty was already putting into operation a "prearranged plan" to cope with all this. The plan was apparently to send out part of Britain's American squadron, the cruisers York, Berwick, Exeter, to look for the raider...