Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days ago on the platform of a railway station in Warsaw, a Russian monarchist student assassinated M. Voikoff, the Soviet Minister to Poland. The Polish Minister at Moscow was immediately instructed to express to the Soviet government Poland's deep regret; President Moseicki of Poland sent a message of like effect to President Kalinin of the Soviet; the Polish foreign minister forwarded a similar communication to the Soviet Foreign Office. The Polish government seemed to have done all that was reasonably possible. But the matter was not allowed to drop by the Soviet officials, and a sharp protest was returned...
...matter is obviously delicate. Poland and Russia have not recently enjoyed cordial relations, and unfortunately M. Voikoff seems to have been an influential worker for a better amity. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo is recalled, and the prospect of war, if not imminent, seems at least possible. The Soviet is not enjoying success, the diplomatic rupture with England and the difficulties in the Far East have not made matters easy for the Russian government, and reports from Moscow hint that popular feeling regards the assassination as part of a concerted campaign against the Soviet...
...music manufactures of their countries?16 makes of German pianos, organs, sounding brass and a wide variety of intricate woodwork for translating still air into meaningful reverberations; 19 German and 18 French music publishing exhibits; "His Master's Voice" (Gramophone) from England; instruments and music from the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden; a Steinway piano exhibit from the U. S. There was a colossal German piano that played quarter tones; a weird French orphéal like a harmonium superimposed on a piano...
Professor Kellogg will spend some months in England studying and visiting many well-known mathematicians. From there he will journey to Geneva, Switzerland; from which throughout the remainder of his stay abroad he will make excursion study trips to Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Poitiers, Rome, Hungary, and Poland. In each of these places he will visit famous professors of mathematics and will study...
...Warsaw, Poland...