Word: polished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does strike swift and sharp. Last week, in Poland, where 95% of all Y. M. C. A. members are Roman Catholics, the Archbishop of Warsaw, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, decided to smash the "Y" at one blow. This he prepared to do by issuing a formal message to all Polish Christians...
...warn the Christian population under my leadership against the influences of the Protestant controlled and heretical Young Men's Christian Association on Catholic youths. I base my warning on the Pope's decree dated Nov. 5, 1920. The Y. M. C. A. is neither Polish nor Catholic. It is supported by Protestants and heretics and anyone who gives a cent to this institution is harming the Church and Polish youth. We can not give our Catholic youth to this American heresy, born and bred of Protestant propaganda, which is now being spread over the whole world...
Observers recalled that Mme. Moscicki, wife of President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland, is Chairman of the Executive Board of the Polish Y. M. C. A., an organization built up since the War with funds contributed from the U. S., though there are today only five U. S. citizens employed by the Polish...
...Council heard a preliminary report on educational conditions in Polish Upper Silesia where there is a large "German minority." Controversy spirals up from the complaints of Germans that their children are being forced to learn Polish, and the retort of Poles that the students really are Polish and that it would merely be pampering their misguided German parents to educate these children in German...
...During the week French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, both representing their countries at the Council table, made good use of leisure moments to persuade German Foreign Minister Stresemann and Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, to resume pourparlers for a German-Polish commercial entente which had seemed to be breaking down of late. Once again was seen the peculiar, inherent importance of League sessions-they bring into peaceful personal contact statesmen who might otherwise quarrel over the telegraph...