Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danzig's union with Poland is not temporary and it cannot be given up by one party. Danzig can only exist and grow as a Polish port. The Free City was created to serve that purpose and must be governed so as to fulfill the obligations imposed upon it by the Treaty of Versailles...
...freedom if the Allies won; the Central Powers promised freedom too. Patriotic Poles in the opposing armies, just to make their country's freedom doubly sure, shot each other on sight. On the Russian side was Actor Boleslavski of the Moscow Art Theatre. As an officer of the Polish Lancers he had a dashing part to play. "During the war, and later during the Revolution, we wandered in and out of the confusion, always a little detached from all of it. Though we fought and were killed, we were in spirit really onlookers." Onlooker Boleslavski found that the scenes...
...Plenary Sessions of the Assembly proper. From Harvard, Messrs. Rubin, Shuebruck, Daniels, Loring and Portal are working upon problems incidental to the task of disarmament. Messrs. Furlong, Blinn, Hoffman, Davis, and Kersten are studying the question of revision of treaties, with especial reference to the pressing dispute over the Polish Corridor. Economic problems, with emphasis laid upon debts, reparations, and tariffs, will be considered...
...Model Council, under the direction of D. H. Popper '32, chairman of the French delegation and of the Harvard delegation, to consider the present crisis in Sino-Japanese relations. After a luncheon for the visiting students, Committee meetings will be held on Disarmament, Economic Questions, and the Polish Corridor, and the day will end with the annual dance of the Model League. Saturday morning and afternoon will be taken up by the Plenary Sessions of the Model Assembly, at which the resolutions adopted at the Committee meetings and the Council Session will be generally debated. Various systems of balloting will...
...ward off suicidal despair Spengler recommends the psychological attitude of the Roman soldier who died at his post in Pompeii. When the volcano under civilization explodes, and the burning dust begins to descend, the more honorable Spenglerian carnivores will take it standing, polish up their buttons as the lava rises. With its men all dead but its honorable buttons bright, Western civilization can then rest forever on its yews...