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Married, Katherine Silva Cornell, 17. heiress to the late Oilman Robert Oglesby; and Count Jan Drohojowski, Berlin correspondent for the Kurjer Poznanski of Poznan (Posen), Poland; in Tulsa, Okla. Headlined the New York Telegram: COUNT WEDS...
Everywhere in Germany flags were at half-mast. Newspapers were heavily bordered in black. Der Tag printed pictures of the lost cities of Danzig, Posen and Strasbourg festooned with chains...
...Germans it is a bitter, galling fact that Posen, the birthplace of President Paul von Hindenburg, is no longer German but lies in the wedge of Polish territory which was driven through Prussia to the Baltic by the Treaty of Versailles. With his own province thus a knife in the back of his fatherland, Old Paul von Hindenburg has begun to display marked sympathy, of late, for East Prussia- that part of Germany which is divided from the rest by the Polish knife. Last week the Herr President showed the tempo of his feeling by arriving with ponderous unexpectedness...
...Posen the self-appointed anti-Pilsudski régime of General Haller (TIME, May 31) issued ominous manifestoes...
Rival Government? At Posen, General Haller, organizer of the Polish Legion in the U. S. during the World War, assembled some 10,000 troops, which started to march on Warsaw early in the week to overthrow Pilsudski. Late despatches reported that this expedition had been abandoned, that General Haller had been feted and decked with flowers by Posenites, who were encouraging him to set up a rival government of Poland with their city as its capital...