Word: silesia
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Died. Friedrich August III, 66, onetime gay king of Saxony; of heart disease; in his castle, Sibyllenort, near Breslau, Silesia. Unconventional, Catholic, he was popular with his Protestant subjects. While he was crown prince, his wife, onetime Archduchess of Austria, eloped with the French tutor of his royal children. When the German Republic was proclaimed in 1918, he was asked by telephone whether he would abdicate willingly. Said he: "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better." Several years later, cheered by a crowd in a railroad station, he stuck his head out the window and shouted...
...Borah (faltering)-Well, I think it might not be proper; I think there was a condition there, existing prior to that time, which needed consideration. . . . I would change the Polish Corridor if it was [sic] possible to do so; and I would change the situation with reference to Upper Silesia if I could...
...home for the deaf at Gorlitz, Silesia, to warn the inmates of fire, every mattress was equipped with a shaker, electrically agitated...
...Publicly rebuked Poland for oppressing her "German minority," privately accepted assurances that the Governor of Upper Silesia (responsible for much oppression) will be removed, although a friend of Polish Dictator Pilsudski...
Hollow-eyed, footsore, prematurely aged, Rudolf Kutz and Johann Mischalski stumbled into Beuthen, German Silesia last week, sought out the homes they had left 15 years before. They were World War prisoners. For the past 15 months they have made their way from a prison camp in northern Siberia through Moscow, to Kovno, then over the Polish border to Warsaw and southwest to Silesia...