Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tragic Hour." There was no scorn in the reports of one expression of desire for peace. All week from Rome came stories that the Pope would propose a general conference, hoping to create a Catholic Polish buffer state between godless Russia and pagan Germany. But no proposal came. Instead, at ten o'clock one morning last week, before the Polish Ambassador, the Polish Primate and a large audience of Polish priests and nuns, the Pope walked to the throne in the Pontifical Palace of Castel Gandolfo, to offer words of consolation to "his children of Catholic Poland" in this...
Soon the Yorks were touring British Africa in royal style (he shot a white rhinoceros, she refused to shoot another "because they are so rare"); Polish monarchists offered to start a movement to make him King of Poland (he declined with thanks); the Duke came down with influenza; and the Duchess was delivered of her first child, Princess Elizabeth, on April...
...other side of Europe things were getting tough for Italy. In Moscow, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Joseph Stalin divided Poland with not so much as a by-your-leave to Benito Mussolini, who wants an ethnic Polish state where 20,000,000 good Polish Catholics might live with the blessing of the Pope. The Balkans, which Italy thought would turn to her while Germany was at war, turned to Russia instead...
With the fall of Warsaw ancient and historic "Holy Poland" was again without a capital (see p. 32). However, through five centuries, half-a-dozen major wars and three partitions until Hitler & Stalin made the fourth, Poland has endured often as a burning ideal in the hearts of the Polish people rather than as a political fact. It was therefore no surprise last week when a brand new Polish Government popped up in Paris. At the Polish Embassy there it was announced that just before President Ignacy Moscicki fled from Poland to Rumania (TIME, Oct. 2) he secretly resigned...
...maneuver technically necessitated by the fact that Poland's erstwhile "Strong Man" Marshal Smigly-Rydz and other members of the former Polish Cabinet had not only been interned but held strictly incommunicado in Rumania, as a result of joint pressure applied by Berlin and Moscow to King Carol...