Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nature of that ground went back directly to M. Barthou's general diplomatic background. It was he as French War Minister in 1921 who wrote the military clauses of the Franco-Polish Alliance. This alone enabled the re-created Polish State to maintain itself against Soviet Russia and against Germany's desire to recover the Polish Corridor. In the whole post-War period up to last winter Poland was regarded as the fortunate and presumably grateful protege of France...
...nothing but Poland, piqued at not having been invited into Il Duce's prospective club and suspicious of France for joining without her, smoldered with resentment. Warsaw was thus in receptive mood when Berlin proposed Adolf Hitler's most statesmanly idea thus far, namely, that the Polish Corridor question should be put officially on ice for ten years by a non-aggression pact between the two countries. This was duly signed (TIME. Feb. 4). It profoundly vexed France and sent M. Barthou, who had just come in as Foreign Minister in the National Union Cabinet of Premier Gaston...
...point in Geneva last week was that Polish Dictator Pilsudski and German Dictator Hitler, both highly emotional, impulsive and changeable, find themselves for the moment in firm accord. Any nation in accord with Hitler must chime in with his aversion to the Treaty of Versailles, the very document that re-created Poland after her 300-year subjugation. The climax of paradox was reached in Geneva last week when Marshal Pilsudski's long, lean Colonel Beck rose to make a bold declaration unique in League history and tantamount to tearing up a portion of the Treaty of Versailles...
Poland Into Greatness? Signed at Versailles integrally with the main treaty was the Polish Minority Treaty, vesting in the League authority to compel the Polish Government to give adequate protection to Jews and other "minority peoples" in Poland. Without success Poland has several times urged the Great Powers to put their minority peoples under similar protection. Last week Colonel Beck arose to rasp: "Pending the bringing into force of a general and uniform system for the protection of minorities, my Government finds itself compelled to refuse, as from today, all co-operation with international organizations [i. e. the League...
...Poland depended upon the sanctity of treaties. Italy's towering Baron Aloisi followed and served notice that Mussolini will stand no nonsense from Pilsudski. By next day Colonel Beck, while sticking technically to his guns, was protesting that the minority peoples in Poland will continue to enjoy under Polish law every right and privilege they ever received by intervention of the League. Nonetheless the Polish delegation was completely snowed under with passionate protests bearing Jewish names...