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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pronounce the name of the Polish seaport which I for lack of a better pronunciation have been calling "Gardenia" (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Unfriendly? Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck returned to Warsaw from London carrying the outline of a Polish-British Treaty of alliance in which not only Britain promised to go to war if Poland were attacked but Poland agreed to reciprocate. The alliance was expected to be signed this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: MADMEN AND FOOLS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Britain and France were negotiating with Eastern European nations (understood to include Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece) a tight system of military agreements to resist further Nazi aggression. In the meantime, moreover, the British Government was prepared to consider the Vistula, the river that flows through the Polish Corridor, just as much its frontier as it has long considered the Rhine. He added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Watch on the Vistula | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend all the support in their power. They have given the Polish Government an assurance to this effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Watch on the Vistula | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Italian press hastily pointed out that a British pledge was not an unmixed blessing. The German press warned Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck not to trust British guarantees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Watch on the Vistula | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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