Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Policy of Catherini 11 (Polish Partitions)," Professor Karpovich in the Fogg Museum, Small Room...
This high-handed gentleman, who controls his Parliament by locking its doors or rearranging its calendar whenever criticism is attempted, is on his way to Geneva to present his country's claims in the Lithuanian dispute. This dispute arose seven years ago when without good reason Polish forces marched into Lithuania and seized the capital, Vilna, and occupied a good portion of that country. Since then the inhabitants have been energetically kept in hand and revolutions have been continually fomented against the government which controls what is left of Lithuania...
...annex this country is only the first step in the grandiloquent scheme of Polish nationalists to build a gigantic state stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Of course this could not be accomplished without another war, which even the most sanguinary believe cannot happen for at least ten years. Yet that the Poles have been allowed to retain Vilna for seven years without an investigation by the League or interference by any of the powers shows that all is not well. It has its roots in the same condition that is responsible for anti-Semitic riots in Hungary...
Three years ago he belonged to the Anshe Emeth Congregation (Jewish Centre) in Cleveland. Its original members had immigrated in the 1880's from P'selvah, Polish village near Vilna. There most of them had been Yeshivah Buchers (religious students). They and most of their descendants in Cleveland are vigorously Orthodox...
...military; a major feature of the week was the tests for army animals. The first evening Major R. S. Timmis, Canada, rode Bucephalus (name of the war horse of Alexander the Great) to win an international cup, made in London for George III, latterly presented by Jan Ciechanowski, Polish Minister. Poland possessed itself of the important International Military Trophy in jumping contest against U. S., Canada, France...