Word: prussia
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...hrer Hitler took Memel last week with enough flourish to make it seem valuable. It is not. The district is a homespun, colorless countryside 1,099 square miles in area bounded by East Prussia, the Baltic Sea and Lithuania. The population is a piddling 152,000, some 78% of them claimed by Germany. Memel has no industries important enough for the Nazis to boast of and Germany has many better ports. To Lithuania, however, it represents one-sixth of her industry, and it was the nation's only good outlet to the sea. With Memel gone, Lithuania...
...Principality of Liechtenstein, a five-by-twelve-mile independent State in the central Alps between Austria and Switzerland, is dogged but slow. Back in 1866, when Liechtenstein decided to join Austria and go to war against Prussia, its Army...
...tall soldiers put on their leather helmets, marched off. But when they arrived at the front, the war was over: Prussia...
...During the World War he was Nuncio at Munich, a channel through which went many diplomatic negotiations, including Pope Benedict XV's famed peace proposals. By the time he returned to Rome in 1929 to accept his red hat, Cardinal Pacelli had arranged papal concordats with Bavaria, with Prussia. Two months later he succeeded aging Cardinal Gasparri as Secretary of State...
...Reichswehr, but at least it could rob Führer Hitler of another of his bloodless conquests. Moreover, Poland has an air force of 1,500 planes, and Poles are fond of saying that while Berlin is only 80 miles from the Polish border, Warsaw is 170 from West Prussia...