Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Cretziano, suave Rumanian Minister to the U. S., was ordered to swap posts with peppery Carol Davila, Rumanian Minister to Poland. The order was part of a general reshuffle of Rumanian diplomats, drastically begun last week by the new Peasant Prime Minister of Rumania, Juliu Maniu (TIME...
Titus Filipowicz, intimate crony of Poland's dictator, swashbuckling Marshal Pilsudski, was appointed envoy to the U. S., following the resignation of Minister Jan Ciechanowski "for personal reasons...
Also returning to the U. S. on leave were Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow (Mexico) and Minister John Batterson Stetson Jr. (Poland...
...comrades' merrymaking he crunched across the snow to the wire enclosure; under cover of the wind screaming through ice-ribbed pines he snapped the twanging wires. Three days later he climbed stiff and jolt-bruised from his living coffin, and stumbled into the forests of-Prussia? Russia? Poland...
...Slavs solidified in little communistic groups. Perhaps they were not naturally belligerent (not one of Mucha's paintings commemorates a deed of battle), but onslaughts of domineering Goths, the scorbutic spread of Huns under black-hearted Attila, compelled warfare. The Slavs multiplied, mi grated. Westward they journeyed to Poland, Northern Germany. Eastward they thronged Russia, pierced in slim wedges to the Pacific. Southward they trekked to Hungary, Albania, Greece. By the sth century A.D. they had ceased to be a nation, were even losing race consciousness. Gradually the widespread Slavic peoples adopted Christianity. The 15th century martyr, Bohemian John...