Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Danzig churned with rumors like a pot coming to boil. Because Nazis interfered with Polish customs guards, Warsaw closed the frontier to certain goods, sent a note to the Danzig Senate demanding that interference cease, offering to negotiate. Danzig's Nazi press screamed that Poland had opened a trade war, and the rumors began: at 7 o'clock August 6 trouble would break when Nazis refused to recognize the authority of customs officials; highly placed Poles were preparing to flee; stories from Berlin had German officers getting assignments for August 19 in the Polish towns...
...Warsaw for a four-day conference on "military coordination" went Britain's tallest, heaviest Army officer-Sir Edmund Ironside, Inspector General of the British Overseas Forces. His host was the tall, thin, handsome Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Polish Army. Weighing 252 pounds and standing six feet four inches, General Sir Edmund has been nicknamed "Tiny" by his men. More aptly, the Poles called him the "Iron General" and greeted him with cries of "Bravo Iron...
...Poles were pleased with this outward demonstration of British-Polish military solidarity, which was far more understandable, if not more important, than a temporary breakdown at London of negotiations for a British military loan to Poland. There, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Economic Adviser to the British Government, insisted that the Poles spend the projected $25,000,000 loan in Britain. Head of the Polish Finance Commission Colonel Adam Koc was equally insistent that no strings be attached to the loan, and once last week he threatened to leave London in a huff. At week's end there was talk...
Meanwhile, the German press called Sir Edmund's visit a "secret council of war" and railed against "English interference" and "blustering." More German and Polish military activity was noticeable in and around Danzig, and German Air Marshal Hermann Göring announced that this year's German air maneuvers would begin August 1, and would be held on the Netherlands frontier. Just as another warning to Poland's allies as well as to Germany that Poland would not accept a "Munich deal" over Danzig, Marshal Smigly-Rydz gave an interview to the Paris newspaper, Le Petit Parisien...
Because a Paris weekly (Pour Vous) reported that she had been angling for a job as Nazi propagandist, sullen-eyed, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec), 40, got herself up in a salmon-pink outfit, stormed into court, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. Last week Cinemactress Negri was awarded 10,000 francs (about...