Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Sir Robert was busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian-Belgian round-robin agreement, under the terms of which Britain would specifically agree to FIGHT at any breaching of the Locarno Rhineland frontier...
...Germany signs 25-year nonaggression pacts with France and Belgium and a similar pact with Lithuania. This week the Lithuanian Government, which has feared immediate German attack any day, fairly scrambled in an effort to get Adolf Hitler's signature on this pledge at once...
Most plausible Josefowitz biography said that the family was originally neither Lithuanian nor Swiss but Russian. They were said to have engaged in a wide-scale business of discounting Soviet bills. From 1924 to 1931 U. S. exports to Russia totaled about $600,000,000. These purchases were handled through Amtorg Trading Corp., the Soviet purchasing agency in Manhattan. Amtorg paid some cash, gave notes for the greater part of the Soviet obligations. Many a U. S. industrialist, suspicious of Soviet credit, was willing to sell his Soviet notes at a large discount. The Josefowitz', confident that Russia would...
Last week this sorest of Baltic feuds was suddenly reported about to be healed by a Polish-Lithuanian peace pact. Partial confirmation came when Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck, instead of scouting the rumors, remarked pointedly that on his latest visit to the League of Nations he had a long chat in Geneva with the Lithuanian Minister to Paris, Dr. Petras Klimas whom he had hitherto avoided like the plague...
...beloved Dictator, gruff, walrus-mustached Marshal Josef Pilsudski, major interest was aroused by a remark dropped by one of the Marshal's aides: "Sentimental reasons,among others, prompt him to make peace with Lithuania. His old mother, whom he loved with passionate devotion and gratitude, lies buried on Lithuanian soil. He himself grows old and he cannot visit her grave so long as the Polish-Lithuanian frontier remains closed and relations continue strained...