Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polish Questions...
After luncheon? at which the Dictator appeared as a Polish general with sword and spurs? both statesmen settled quietly to the business which had brought Marshal Pilsudski to Geneva; the Polish-Lithuanian frontier crisis (TIME, Dec. 12). Already M. Briand was in confidential possession of all the facts. On previous days he had several times received the Prime Minister of Lithuania, stocky, spiky-haired Professor Augustine Valdemaras. There had been a four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland...
...Lithuanian mobilization, dreading the horrors of war and fearing on the other hand to let my people suffer invasion through delaying military action. Finally, I decided to put the entire matter into the hands of the League of Nations." Meanwhile, at Kovno, Lithuanian capital, Premier Valdemaras told newsgatherers that Polish troops were menacing Lithuania with "intimidatory and provocative actions." He added, nervously: "This cannot go on forever . . . yet it is inconceivable that Poland should think of seizing Lithuania by force of arms, seeing that Poland is on the League of Nations Council and that Lithuania is also a member...
Notably the district of Vilna, birthplace of Marshal Pilsudski, changed hands between Lithuania and Poland no less than five times in the year 1920. Eventually Vilna was seized with great firmness by the Polish General Zeligovski (Oct. 9, 1920), and this fait accompli was recognized by the Council of Ambassadors (TIME, March 31, 1923). Since 1920, however, both countries have remained in a nominal "state of war," and quarrels on every possible minor issue have been incessant...
...political strength squarely on a platform of ardent nationalism. That he has been of many nationalities, in the legal sense, is explained by the fact that the district in which he was born has been, during his lifetime, once Russian, once German, several times Lithuanian and is now Polish. By general repute Premier Valdemaras is deemed relatively normal, in contrast with the unguessable moods and eccentricities of Marshal Pilsudski...