Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hate, naked and unashamed, stalked through Poland and Germany. By order of the Polish Government, 15,000 German families were arbitrarily deported for the sole reason that in 1921 they had fearlessly voted in a plebiscite to remain German citizens. By order of the German Government, 12,000 Polish families were likewise arbitrarily deported as a reprisal. In two days of last week the exodoi were completed...
...which led to the evictions dates back to 1921, when a plebiscite was held under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles to determine the sovereignty of Upper Silesia. The result of the plebiscite was that 717,122 Upper Silesians voted for German rule while 483,514 voted for Polish. The Treaty stipulated that the result of the plebiscite was to be determined by communes with regard to the wishes and to the geographical and economic conditions of the area...
Some months ago, the Poles obtained a ruling from the Permanent International Court of Justice at the Hague, confirming the justice of their contention that all Germans who had voted for Germany in the 1921 plebiscite and who were incorporated in the Polish Republic (there are 400,000 of them) should be repatriated* to Germany. The German Government was informed by the Polish Government that its right to repatriate Germans resident in Polish Silesia would be exercised. Diplomatic negotiations were opened and, although it was clear that the Poles were inexorably bent upon carrying out their plans, the German Government...
Arrived in the U. S. tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome Count Alexander Skrzynski (pronounced Sh-trin-ski), Polish Foreign Minister. At a Manhattan pier a swarm of his fellow-countrymen greeted him. To them the Count addressed Polish words...
Among the distinguished gentlemen invited to make that journey were: Count Alexander Skrzynski (pronounced Sh-trin-ski), Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, who came to the U. S. to deliver two addresses before the Institute on the policy and economics of Poland Count Antonio Cippico, famed Facist, Italian Senator and friend of Mussolini, to speak on Italy, the Mediterranean area Robert Masson, French banker who is the virtual head of the Credit Lyonnais and during the War performed much the same service for France that Robert Morris rendered revolutionary America; eloquent Dr. William E. Rappard, member of the Permanent Mandates...