Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Protocol statemen abandoned the League as a valid champion of the status quo and returned toward the old system of security compacts or treaties. Germany cried aloud that she needed to be protected, and offered: a) To forget Alsace, b) To guarantee the French and possibly the Polish Czecho-Slovakia frontiers (TIME, Aug. 13) in return for guarantees as to her own safety from Britain and France. Since then the exchange of "notes" and "conversations" has been endless. Britain has shown an inclination toward the business and has talked about having Germany enter the League. Now it seems that...
Last week with an accompanying fanfare Feldmarschall August von Mackensen*, monarchist War idol, also in full uniform, reviewed the German Reichswehr as they maneuvered in "East Prussian war games," just without the Polish border...
...Prospect. The Council on assembling was faced with the problem of deciding a whole series of controversies including 1) the postal juridiction and munitions de-disposition of Mosul; 2) Polish pots in Danzig; 3) disposition of the unused portion of the Austrian loan and Austrian finances in general; 4) opium control; 5) minorities in Rumania and elsewhere, 6) international relief; 7) slavery...
...Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Jewess, leader of the extreme radicals in the attempted Spartacus revolt was pounded to death by the rifle butts of soldiers when the revolution failed in January, 1919. Her body was thrown into the River Spree...
...announced in Manhattan that the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank had granted a credit of $10,000,000, secured by gold to the Bank Polski. The loan is for one year at 4½%. The credit will be used to maintain the zloty on the exchange because Polish currency was recently placed on a gold basis...