Word: poznan
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...drove the invaders back to Warsaw's southwestern suburbs, but there the main German forces soon arrived, too, and Warsaw was hemmed in on at least two sides. To its defense from the west came Polish divisions retreating in good order out of the big pocket formed around Poznan, where the Nazi attack had been light for fear of harming the thick German population. With other reinforcements from the east, Warsaw's defenders dug in on the Vistula's right bank, lobbing their shells over the city at the gathering Germans...
President of the Danzig Senate is Arthur Greiser, a native of Poznan, who went to Danzig in 1920 because American relief food was plentiful there. A failure at everything else, he went into politics, progressively switching from the Socialists, to the Stahlelm (reactionary veterans' party), to the Nazis. Oratory and a talent for street-fighting made him Deputy-gauleiter of Danzig and President of the Senate in 1934, a year after the Nazis had gained control of the Danzig Government. Nazi Greiser prefers autonomy for Danzig to actual annexation by Germany, but when the time comes...
Discovered only yesterday morning by Polish astronomer Kwlek of the Poznan Observatory, the strange object is believed to be an unusual asteroid or small planet similar to the Delporte object which last spring set the astronomical world agog with its close approach to earth...
Like poison gas, intolerance spread through Poland. At Vilna, students were injured. Shopkeepers were beaten at Czesstochowa. The rector nipped a riot at Warsaw Polytechnic Institute by locking the gates. Rioters looted a Lwow jewelry shop, set fire to a Warsaw Jewish clubhouse. In Poznan jeering students beat up Jewish Professor Kasimierz Nowakowski. There was a fine riot in Krakow...
...Poznan, where the statue was erected, is a city that had nothing in particular to do with Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a great deal to do with Ignace Paderewski. It was there that he landed from a British warship in 1919 while Germans still held the town, to become Poland's first Premier. Poznan has always been a Paderewski, anti-Pilsudski bailiwick. The Wilson unveiling resolved itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited...