Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What kind of concession could Germany make that would save Allied face? Best bet seemed to be a pint-sized "ethnographic" Polish State around Warsaw. Herr Hitler spoke mistily of further central European ethnographic shifts. An "autonomous" Polish State could always be rigged in favor of the Nazis to save them face. But if the Allied negotiator held out for an autonomous CzechoSlovakia, and there was much talk in the House of Commons about that, the negotiations would probably not get very...
...very important," he said, "that we should not come to a too hurried conclusion." He did not want Great Britain to make any more enemies, particularly of Italy and Russia. He was even willing to keep an open mind about the possible impossibility of restoring Poland to the Polish Republic. The territory that Russia took from Poland "certainly is not Polish," Mr. Lloyd George said. He wanted whatever peace terms were being delivered to receive "very, very careful consideration...
About 15,000 Poles were recruited in France to fight on the Western Front by energetic General Wladyslaw Sikorski before he was named Premier last fortnight of the expatriate Government of Poland set up in Paris (TIME, Oct. 9).* He has enough Polish officers for 30 divisions, but no uniforms; these are being hastily made up. Last week General Sikorski, after instructing his Finance Minister Colonel Adam Koc to try to get from Britain and France part of some $46,000,000 which they agreed to loan to Poland just as the German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard...
Meanwhile U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. called in Paris upon new expatriate Polish President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, this act confirming diplomatic recognition, which was also granted by France, Great Britain, Turkey, Sweden, Argentina, Mexico, the Vatican. Turks in Paris proudly recalled that during previous partitions of Poland, when the country appeared defunct for generations at a time, it was customary at the Sultan's Court for the Turkish majordomo, after announcing the names of all guests who had arrived, to shout "and unfortunately the Polish Ambassador is unavoidably absent...
...Berlin meanwhile the German Institute For Bank Research and Science turned out a report showing that 43% of the shares in Polish corporations are held by foreign capital. France is stuck with an investment of 391,000,000 zlotys ($60,610,000); the U. S. with 277,000,000 zlotys ($52,630,000); and the German stake was 251,000,000 zlotys. In the Soviet part of partitioned Poland all capital investments will probably be taken over by Moscow soon, but most of Polish industry is in the German sector and up to this week Berlin had not tampered with...