Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently elected in succession to General Sikorski, Premier Witos gave vent to the peaceful policy of the new Polish Government...
...Good relations with Germany. 4) Genuine peace with Russia and Lithuania, despite Russia "upsetting the world concience" and Lithuania giving "incessant provocations." 5) The statement that "the establishment of rational relations between the States erected on the ruins of the Central Powers must be based on a coordination of Polish, Czecho-Slovakian and Yugoslavian policies toward Central European problems. The establishment of these relations, including as well the Baltic countries, will consolidate the peace of Europe...
Besides an ability to present a scene, Viscount Bryce has the power of describing people. An unbounded sympathy and a keen sense of humor gave him those qualities essential to the portrait painter. His picture of the Polish guide is unforgettable. "He was a strange wild creature, tall, stalwart, and handsome, with bold features, dark hair hanging in long locks round his cheeks and an expression in his eyes like that of a startled fawn. Not that I can remember ever to have seen a startled fawn: however, his expression, was just that which the startled fawn is supposed...
...Earl of Cavan, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, to Poland, where he reviewed troops at the great training camp at Rembretow, has caused Trotzky no little anxiety. He says Lord Cavan's visit means " military peace between England and Poland," the shipment of ammunitions to the Polish army, finally that Poland is being used by Great Britain against Russia in the same way that France is using her against Germany...
Marshal Ferdinand Foch: " Returning to Paris from Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, I brought with me: a portfolio of honorary diplomas from Polish Universities, a pair of socks knitted by a woman 80 years old, an obelisk of coal from Silesian miners, several rugs woven by Polish peasants, a bottle of wine of the vintage...