Word: polese
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There were the usual protests, with the usual results, but Hitler's seizure of Bohemia and Moravia had two important consequences. First, Chamberlain finally realized that appeasement would not suffice to restrain Hitler. So when Hitler began talking to the Poles in that same month about the Germans' need to...
If the German conflicts with France ran back for centuries, so did those with the Poles, conflicts tinged with contempt. Long before Hitler, General Hans von Seeckt, the haughty army commander during the Weimar Republic, had said of the frontiers established by Versailles, "Poland's existence is intolerable, incompatible with...
Each triumph filled Hitler with ever greater confidence in his invincibility, in his political instincts and in the irresolution of his antagonists. Having easily conquered Austria, he decided in the spring of 1938 to attack Czechoslovakia. Like Poland, Czechoslovakia had been carved out of the Habsburg Empire by the mapmakers...
The grueling events of the week put strains on U.S.-Israeli relations over the question of whether Israel had recklessly endangered the lives of Americans. To the Israelis, at least, aggressiveness was clearly preferable to the unbudging status quo that the U.S. appears to tolerate in the unending hostage dilemma...
Last week's decision by the outgoing government to abandon rationing and other controls immediately and permit market forces to control prices had lightning impact: the cost of bread soared 100%, milk nearly 300% and some cuts of meat more than 400%. But the move brought no quick improvement in...