Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interpreter was a Polish Jew who once worked in England as a traveling salesman, today His Excellency Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, roly-poly Foreign Minister of Soviet Russia. Smarter than "Maxie" they do not come. Knowing perfectly well that every member of the British ruling classes hates him and Stalin, Comrade Litvinoff stage-managed Captain Eden's visit in a way to win reluctant sympathy for Bolshevikland and turn the tables against Nazidom...
...Warsaw eccentric Marshal Josef Pilsudski took calm note of the riots as fresh evidence of the unpopularity in Poland of the pro-German policy of Foreign Minister Josef Beck. It was Beck who sold to Dictator Pilsudski the ten-year Polish-German non-aggression pact of Dictator Hitler (TIME, Feb. 3, 1934). Last week Pilsudski was busy jamming through Poland's long-impotent Parliament constitutional changes making the dictatorship still more absolute. "One thing at a time!" is the crusty old Marshal's motto. For Poles the choice of the future lies between reverting to their old-time...
...declare in 1492 a Jewish boycott of Spain which was still in effect last week. For 443 years Orthodox Jews have eschewed trading with Spain or felt twinges of conscience for doing so. Last week in Warsaw the hoary Boycott of Spain was ended at last for Polish Jews by their Rabbinate...
...other rabbinate followed the forgiving lead of Polish Jewry, for many an Orthodox Jew cherishes the tradition of boycotting Spaniards. In his able We Jews, Journalist George Sokolsky characteristically reports : "England and Holland which used him [the Jew] prospered, while Spain, which excluded him, collapsed economically and its great Empire sank into a Mediterranean memory...
...deigning to apply epithets to such a film, dignified Politika urged the Yugoslavian Government to deal with Fox Films in the fashion of Polish Dictator Pilsudski: "Last year Warner Brothers made a film in which two gangsters had Polish names. . . . Poland promptly banned all Warner Brothers films and continued this ban until the company issued its unqualified apologies...