Word: silesian
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...that Poles are 97 percent Catholic, 98 percent anti-Russian, and 99 percent passionately Polish. He also points out that they are altogether unsympathetic with Soviet attempts to woo the Germans, who they recall, killed more than 8,000,000 Poles. The speed of Polish recovery is based on Silesian industry. Should Russia's pals, in Germany set return of that region as a condition of their friendship, the Kremlin would be very seriously embarrassed...
...husky, crop-haired Augustus Hlond, son of a Silesian laborer, became the youngest cardinal in the world. He was also the first Prince of the Church to celebrate a Mass that was broadcast (in 1928), and the first to fly in a plane (in 1929). When the Nazis and the Russians occupied Poland, Cardinal Hlond became an international figure. In 1940, his report to the Pope on the "dark, apocalyptic disaster" of German atrocities shocked the whole world...
That plan divided Germany into four parts, under four occupation governments: Russia in Berlin and the East (less the Silesian and East Prussian areas to be given to the Soviet Union's new Poland) ; the U.S. in Bavaria, in the South; Britain in a central and western area including Leipzig, Dusseldorf, and the ports of Bremen and Hamburg on the strategic North Sea coastline ; France in the Rhineland (all of the areas were still to be defined exactly...
Many months ago Ursula found R.A.F. Flight Sergeant Donald Meese hiding in a Silesian barn after escape from a prison camp, hid him from pursuers, gave him clothes and a map for escape. Ursula followed later, married him in Cracow, went to England with...
...weather enabled the U.S. and British strategic air forces to throw their full weight against the enemy. In 13 days 19,000 heavy bombers were over German territory, blasting and burning. One of the first targets was Saxony's handsome capital, Dresden, a main feeder point for the Silesian front...