Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to contradict you most strongly by saying that America did not look with "anxiety" or "resentment" upon "the advance of the Red army upon the Polish borders." To tell the truth everyday America paid little attention to the Russo-Polish affair, being already heartily sick of the European muddle. But what irritates me here is your evident lack of desire to give the true historical perspective to this "Red advance," or your mention of Koskiusko shows you to be more familiar with your ancient history than with the living history of today...
...between Poland and Bolshevik Russia which I believe are not well founded," said Professor Robert H. Lord '06, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON. Professor Lord has returned recently from a few months visit in Poland, where he had an opportunity to study at first hand the recent Polish war. He is a co-author with Dean Haskins of the book lately published by the Harvard Press: "Some Problems of the Peace Conference...
...first view has received a kind of sanction from what seem to me some very unfair statements of Mr. Lloyd George in which he has accused Poland of being the aggressor. The people who make this charge usually try to prove it by pointing to the Polish expedition to Kiev last May and seem to imagine that the war began with this expedition, and that Poland thereby needlessly and wantonly challenged Russia...
...From the time when Hoskiusko and his followers, failing in their efforts to gain their own freedom, crossed the seas and fought successfully for ours, Poland and America have been firm friends. It was with anxiety and resentment that Americans watched the advance of the Red army upon the Polish borders; anxiety for the courageous little State, resentment that our own officialdom should do no more than write another note to Moscow. But, thanks to the fighting qualities of the Poles, and to timely artillery assistance from the French, Poland is, for the present at least, out of danger...
Thirty-seven men died fighting under the British flag, 15 under the French. The Polish and Japanese armies each claim...