Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret protocol tothe Nazi-Soviet pact divvied up Poland and split the Baltic States between Russian and German spheres of influence. From the protocol: "The question of whether the interests of both parties make desirable the maintenance of an independent Polish state and how such a state should be bounded can only be definitely determined in the course of further political developments. . . . Attention is called by the Soviet side to its interest in [Rumania's] Bessarabia...
What caused Scotland's idyllic male surplus? 1) Many a Scots lass, drafted into English factories during the war, never went home-which had provoked loud protests from Scotsmen at the time. 2) Many another lass had married a Polish, Canadian or U.S. soldier stationed in Scotland. South of the border, the girls had a far grimmer time of it; England had a surplus of 166,000 marriageable women...
...Glasgow early last summer, two young Polish Jews named Mordecai Szulc and Manick Kuper met a mysterious stranger whom they knew only as George. They were veterans of the Polish Army, and they were anxious to get to Canada. George was willing to help them, for $1,500 apiece...
...story came out last week when, in Toronto, Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen arrested Szulc, Kuper and five other Polish Jews who had been routed to Canada by George from a D.P. camp in Germany. Charged with illegally entering Canada, all seven were jailed. The arrests brought the first news of a passport racket that has been in full swing for nearly a year, has kept Scotland Yard in a dither for weeks...
...strength of Other Voices Other Rooms, Novelist Capote is safe from smothering in laurels. The book is a literary contrivance of unusual polish, better than the brightly ghostly short stories that gave its author a minor reputation. But it is immature and its theme is calculated to make the flesh crawl...