Word: silesian
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Clad in the attire of a "simple country gentleman," the ex-Crown Prince made his first public appearance at Oels by attending a concert. The inhabitants of the Silesian village treated him as the Crown Prince. When he entered the concert hall the entire audience rose and as His Imperial Highness passed by, women and girls made low courtesies and the males sung a chorus of "hochs" for the Crown Prnice and the Monarchy. When the Prince left, the audience again manifested its attachment to the House of Hohenzollern...
...Korfanty, Silesian member of the Polish Government and possible Minister of Commerce, in a speech at Warsaw, admitted that Herr Hugo Stinnes, master of coke, had secured a foothold in Polish industry, but he declared him persona non grata...
Said the ex-Senator : " Never have these four rules been broken." He then cited the League's successful efforts with regard to the Aland Islands, Albanian, Silesian, Austrian and Sarre Valley problems...
Marshal Ferdinand Foch: " Returning to Paris from Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, I brought with me: a portfolio of honorary diplomas from Polish Universities, a pair of socks knitted by a woman 80 years old, an obelisk of coal from Silesian miners, several rugs woven by Polish peasants, a bottle of wine of the vintage...
...area,-having been in German hands for seven hundred years, has become thoroughly Teutonized and does not desire, therefore, to become a part of Poland. Furthermore, the Germans claim that they will be unable to pay their war debt without the aid of the very valuable resources of the Silesian territory...