Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monsieur" Chamberlain. Out of the question of whether Poland, as well as Germany, shall be given a permanent seat on the League Council (TIME, March 1) there arose last week a notable furore which centered about the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain. It threatened indeed to tarnish for the first time the glory which he won by steering the Locarno Conference to a successful conclusion (TIME...
Speaking at Birmingham, the political seat of the Chamberlain family, Sir Austen incautiously gave the impression that he expected to attend the special session of the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations, called for March 8, with complete freedom to offer British support to the candidacy of Poland and that he would very probably do so if "circumstances" seemed to warrant...
Unfortunately, all the notable British political parties had supposed that the Cabinet had instructed Sir Austen to oppose the claims of Poland, which are admittedly being put forward by her ally France to offset the entrance of Germany into the League. British public opinion promptly crystallized against the admission of any other state than Germany to the League Council at present; and Sir Austen found himself in a completely awkward position. His position became almost untenable, late in the week, when the British press began to hint that Sir Austen had deliberately bargained with M. Briand at Locarno, the price...
...Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, arrived from Geneva to confer with Foreign Minister Stresemann respecting the details of Germany's forthcoming entry into the League. Later the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag passed a resolution strongly condemning French propaganda, which has been urging that Poland be given a permanent seat on the League Council at the same time as Germany. The German resolution was, of course, couched in purely general terms; did not mention Poland or her great ally France...
...other deciding factor that has turned the students away from internationalism and hence away from the republic, whose most ardent supporters are mainly internationalists and pacifists, has been the unwise treatment of that republic by the former enemies, and above all by France and Poland. The "passionate consciousness of race and nation" so natural to educated young men and women has been outraged too many times. The invasion of the Ruhr was a tremendous victory for all those Germans whom Americans in general regard as "reactionaries," the shooting down of German workmen at Essen at Easter time...