Word: rydz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news relegates them to obscurity. For instance, the Jack Benny cover story was ready for the printer the day the Wehrmacht moved into Poland and World War II began. That was too much competition for Comedian Benny, who was replaced by Poland's Commander in Chief Marshal Smigly-Rydz.-Pearl Harbor, which happened on a Sunday, meant a complete recasting and re-writing of the "front-of-the-book." It also meant the removal of Walt Disney's little elephant Dumbo from the forthcoming Christmas cover. Dumbo was replaced by the sterner visage of General Douglas MacArthur...
...poor Poland that they placed their faith. Poland's dictator. General Edward Smigly-Rydz, bravely declared: "We shall win by the Holy Passion of our Lord. He will lead us to victory.'' Poland's passionate Catholics and her skull-capped Jews, marked by tens of thousands for Nazi execution, resolutely dug in for the defense of their country. But the world outside felt in its bones that Poland was digging its own grave...
Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, chief of Poland's vanquished armies, acquired his double-barreled name when army companions nicknamed him "Smigly" (nimble) to describe his particular qualities. After 18 days of fighting, with Hitler's Army snapping at his heels, the nimble Marshal quit the field and skipped across to Rumania, where dignified internment in the Carpathian village of Tasmana enabled him to pursue in comfort his hobbies of gardening and landscape painting...
Another figure from the past who reappeared was Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Poland's rusted little iron man and chief of her vanquished Army, who deserted his fighting troops and skipped across to Rumania a jump ahead of the German Army. From his Carpathian mountain villa, where he had led a life of dignified internment, the Gestapo hauled him to Bucharest for investigation in connection with alleged espionage and sabotage in Rumania, said to involve 7,000 refugee Poles...