Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stall. But as Grant's men before Petersburg were too stunned, when the great mine went off, to rush Confederate works, Germans did not move. As the week's 168 hours sped by, the explosion still seemed tremendous, but few of its casualties were Polish. Casualties-cherished beliefs and convictions-lay perishing in odd spots here & there over the globe, and it looked as if the old sense of security was gone for good. But Poland was not alarmed. Poland had not counted on Russia's help. Poland had not wanted Russian troops on her soil...
...that something had shaken Hitler's plan, disrupted Hitler's timetable. Up to the moment of the mine's explosion his moves have been deliberate, with a curious quality of being at once audacious and careful. Although he screamed on schedule at the French, British and Polish Ambassadors respectively, nevertheless uncertainty, postponements, reversals, entered Germany's history: a speech at Tannenberg was reannounced, then canceled; the Nurnberg Congress of Peace was reannounced, canceled. At the other end of the Axis Benito Mussolini seemed dawdling or lethargic compared with his hyperthyroid partner in Berlin. He seemed pensive...
...dealing in intangibles-in smashing a custom, blowing up his own and another's ideology-and as the week wore on it looked as if intangibles delayed him. Why had he stopped? He would have had the advantage of war if he had plunged to seize Danzig, the Polish Corridor, Upper Silesia and the other sections that he said were his, the moment the shock took effect. But he would also have had the guilt of launching...
...British and American troops in the past World War would have been unable to collaborate with the French armed forces if they had no possibility of operating in French territory, the Soviet armed forces could not participate in military collaboration ... if they were not allowed access to Polish territory...
...since Napoleon," the Warsaw radio assured the nation, "has Britain committed herself so strongly in Continental politics." Polish spirits soared with the news that 3,222,000 balky Ukrainians, shorn by the Soviet-Nazi Pact of any hope of a Nazi fostered Ukraine nation, had declared their loyalty to Poland. "The Ukrainian nation," exulted the patriotic Krakoiver Kuryer, "has extended a fraternal hand to the Poles to fight together in defense of European civilization...