Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publicly rebuked Poland for oppressing her "German minority," privately accepted assurances that the Governor of Upper Silesia (responsible for much oppression) will be removed, although a friend of Polish Dictator Pilsudski...
...women of the Opposition hesitated, gradually wrestled down their party loyalty, got up and joined the parade. Soon nearly every woman's tongue in the entire Sejm was lashing a Government bill introduced to relax the ten-year-old Polish law which forbids liquor sales between Saturday midnight and Sunday...
...path of peace in the thirties will be rough going. Major Bratt's challenging book, That Next War?, is a distressing picture of what may be the future. Mussolini with his foot in the boot of Italy bids fair to kick slumbering Mars into action. Germany edges towards the Polish corridor while La Belle France arms herself to the teeth and Hungary eyes her lost provinces in Roumania. If one adds to this score the obvious red flag flying in Moscow the promises of 1918 seem truly dyed in no uncertain...
...Franco-Belgian military accord of 1920 is vitally important in forwarding the cause of international disarmament and world peace. While the accord contains no secret clause, there is danger that Belgium . . . might eventually be entangled in armed conflict against her will, consequent upon events happening either along the Polish or Italian frontiers...
...Pope needs a good elevator to his private apartment. The present elevator is a simple square platform, dangerous were it not for its slow speed and the attendants who watch it on every floor. †Marshal Pilsudski gave him the Polish order of the White Eagle, and the University of Warsaw made him an honorary doctor-because he doughtily remained in Poland during the Bolshevik Invasion...