Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be a general advance on all fronts. And like the advance forces of an army feeling out the strength of enemy positions, the purpose of the offensive was clear: it partially masked a surprise move that its directing genius had on hand; it tested each sector of the Polish, French, English defense...
...Poland did not give way. In seven days incidents and insults mounted to staggering proportions. A Polish soldier was shot because he blundered over the invisible line, as deadly as a high tension wire, that separates Poland and Danzig; two customs officers were hauled in by Danzig police; a Polish passport office was raided...
Warsaw struck back, arrested the Nazi leader of Polish Germans, disbanded pro-Nazi German organizations. And although Germany swung troops into Slovakia, P'o-land's Ambassador to the U. S., Count Jerzy Potocki, summed up Polish feeling in Washington: "Just as surely as you see me sitting here there will be a general war if Germany attempts to change the status of Danzig." Member of one of the few great Polish landowning families that fought for Polish independence, blond, fox-hunting Count Potocki had been so completely tagged as Washington's leading diplomatic socialite that...
Foreign Minister was racing from one Axis capital to another, and no word of his policy appeared in their press; they were involved in a growing Polish-German conflict, but did not know how deeply; they were menaced by troop movements that had nothing to do with Hungarian conflicts. Result was that Hungarians high and low wanted to be Hungarians and nothing else. Whether the Axis ran from Berlin to Rome or from Berlin to Moscow, Hungarians were determined to close their ranks...
...alarm, to smoke Count Csaky out. Said Tibor Eckhardt, head of the Independent Agrarian Party: "Our Foreign Minister once said that we had to demonstrate our loyalty to friendly countries in difficult times. I agree with him, but this loyalty must extend to all our friends. If . . . a German-Polish conflict breaks out, under no circumstances can we interfere." Then he challenged the Government-"Admiral Hoi thy pledged Hungary to independence and neutrality, let the Foreign Minister repeat the pledge...