Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Timed to the minute came a story from Berlin: Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini would propose peace. German divisions released from the Polish front, together with the bulk of the German air force, would be sent to the German-Italian frontier-prepared to move across Italy with Italian troops if France refused peace; prepared to move against Italy if Italy refused to offer...
...Paris, Polish Singer Jan Kiepura tried to enlist in a Polish legion, instead was sent to cheer up U. S. Poles...
...Ariel, Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting as liaison officer between the British Ministry of Economic Warfare and the French Blockade Ministry. Pretty, serious, half-Polish Eve Curie (Madame Curie) prepared lectures on scientific subjects for the Information Ministry...
...gasoline, prepared to substitute charcoal gas generators for gasoline motors. Booming were iron ore shipments to Germany; hard hit were Swedish sawmills and pulp mills whose chief customers were British. Closed were big wood products factories on the Gulf of Bothnia. But Germany was trading coal from newly-seized Polish mines for Swedish fish, berries, iron...
...minute, hurried Russia's new friends, 1,000,000 of them, armed with tanks, planes, propaganda equipment, armored cars, machine guns, and complaining every minute about the atrocities of the Poles who delayed them. On they hurried, capturing cities, blowing up bridges, destroying old military theories, shooting down Polish airplanes, dropping bombs on fleeing ambassadors, machine-gunning refugees, going twice as fast as the Russians did when they invaded Poland...