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Before then the German strategy had become apparent even to Warsaw. Sweeping past the capital, an East Prussian Army had struck southeastward to Brest-Litovsk, chief railroad centre between Warsaw and Russia. In the South, three separate drives penetrated deep into the Polish Ukraine. Lwow, the Ukrainian capital, was bombed, strafed, set afire, its water supply cut off, but the invaders did not stop to occupy it. On they plunged, passing to the north and south of Lwow, to the very remotest corner of Poland, where it meets Rumania...
...Another sore minority in Poland are the 4,500,000 Ukrainians in the South East. As recently as last April young Polish roughs were beating Ukrainian ringleaders with sticks and iron bars, wrecking their shops and buildings, on the grounds that, plotting revolt, they had hid munitions in churches, machine guns in homes. At that time Ukrainian politicians were said to be itching to throw off Polish shackles even if it meant taking on German ones. But last week Undo (Ukrainian National Democratic Union) declared that Ukrainians would fight beside, not against, Poles...
...Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, White Russian S. S. R., Azerbaijan S. S. R., Georgian S. S. R., Armenian S. S. R., Turkomen S. S. R., Uzbek S. S. R., Tadzhik S. S. R., Kazak S. S. R., Kirghiz...
...since Napoleon," the Warsaw radio assured the nation, "has Britain committed herself so strongly in Continental politics." Polish spirits soared with the news that 3,222,000 balky Ukrainians, shorn by the Soviet-Nazi Pact of any hope of a Nazi fostered Ukraine nation, had declared their loyalty to Poland. "The Ukrainian nation," exulted the patriotic Krakoiver Kuryer, "has extended a fraternal hand to the Poles to fight together in defense of European civilization...
Triumph In Moscow the Soviet Goverment newspaper, Izvestia, proudly reported a dental triumph: three Ukrainian cows fitted with false teeth...