Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draft declaration was submitted to the French, Soviet and Polish governments. It called for "immediate consultation in the event of any further political aggression" by Hitler...
...ninety to one hundred millions in gold, and a substantial number of airplanes. On the other hand, however, the new territory must be policed, and this will involve expenditure of money, dispersion of forces, and internal weakening in general. Moreover, Hitler now has 1200 miles of territory on the Polish and Hungarian border which must be completely fortified. The bulk of the evidence does not indicate that time has ceased to be on the side of the democracies...
WARSAW--A demonstration celebrating the attainment of a Polish-Hungarian frontier by means of Hungary's conquest of Carpathe-Ukrainia incited tonight shouts of "Down with Germany" and a clash between police and anti-Nazi students...
Israel Joshua Singer's big book, published two years ago, was The Brothers Ashkenazi, a chronicle of Polish Jewry told against a background of the textile industry of Lodz. Critics praised the vigor of its narrative, verisimilitude of its atmosphere, especially its detachment. Some critics called it a Polish Forsyte Saga; a few went so far as to call Author Singer the Polish Tolstoy...
...Singer, son of a Warsaw Rabbi, grew up in extreme poverty. Unlike his hero, he abandoned his studies for the Rabbinate out of distaste rather than necessity. An itinerant tutor, salesman, artist's model, he served in the Russian army, saw the German occupation of Poland, weathered the Polish Revolution. Since 1922, when he published his first book of short stories, most of his work has been published in the Jewish Daily Forward, which also sent him to the Soviet Union as correspondent in 1926. Since 1934 Author Singer, his wife and 16-year-old son have lived...