Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of fact, the expedition to Kiev was only one episode in a war which has been going on since December, 1918. The contest started almost as soon as the Polish state came into existence; and as soon as the Germans retired from the occupied district, thus allowing the Bolshevik and the Poles to come in contact. It was started by an invasion of Polish-speaking territory by the Bolsheviks, who at that moment were eager to break through into German territory, and expected to meet little resistance from the newly formed and quite unarmed Poland. Thus...
...refuting the second charge, Professor Lord said, "The charge that the Poles have been conducting the war for wildly imperialistic aims is usually backed up by referring to the demands made by the Polish government from time to time for a frontier in the east far beyond the ethnographic boundaries of Poland. It is often said that the Poles are trying to swallow up millions of White Russians, Lithuanians, and other alien elements...
...claimed by the Poles, as if it were a Lithuanian city to which Poland had no right. As a matter of fact, there are only two thousand Lithuanians in the city, while the Poles are over fifty per cent of the population. The whole district surrounding it is overwhelmingly Polish...
...Polish the Language of White Russia...
...While the eastern section of the White Russians are Orthodox, the western portion of them are strictly Catholic. These latter hear only Polish preached in their churches, and Polish is the language of the prayer books and the religious literature, which is the only thing that most of them read if they read at all. Moreover, Polish is the language of the educated people throughout the country. It is the language that everybody speaks as soon as he begins to rise in the world. In the towns of western White Russia the non-Jewish population is usually Polish, while throughout...