Word: danzigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square-toed German boot drew back for the kick fortnight ago when Dictator Hitler sent his light cruiser Leipzig steaming into the harbor of the Free City of Danzig. Going ashore, the Leipzig's captain committed a flagrant diplomatic breach by paying courtesy calls upon all Danzig officials except the highest, His Excellency Sean Lester, League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To point up this insult young Albert Forster, supple-muscled leader of the Danzig Nazi Party, declared next day in his Nazi news-organ that the adjective which best describes both the League of Nations...
...Wearing much the same kind of walrus mustache as Josef Pilsudski, 16th Century King Istvan Batory, born a Hungarian, was smart enough in his brief, ten-year reign to try to expand Poland to both the Baltic and Black Seas. He smashed the Russian Tsar's armies. conquered Danzig and regained a part of the East Baltic coast, died before he could reach the Black Sea. For a little while then Poland was the No. 1 power between western and eastern Europe...
Eden First. Appearing at Geneva for the first time as British Foreign Secretary, handsome young Anthony Eden brought the Empire's vast influence to bear squarely upon Danzig. In an abject climb-down, Senate President Arthur Greiser of this minute State agreed that its Government of native Danzig Nazis will abolish flagrant undemocratic abuses at the demand of Mr. Eden. The League's High Commissioner for Danzig is Irish Sean Lester, and Geneva found it piquant that Mr. Eden strongly backed him up last week, for the Irish Free State was this week the only part of King...
...collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy's sedate Burlington House, along with other Chinese treasures from collections in the U. S., France, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Austria, Egypt, the City of Danzig...
...Bruins of Brown University unawares and romped through their ranks for a touchdown. And Pop Nairne, the Poly Prep star who has yet to scale the heights of Dartmouth gridiron fame, and Capt, Kenney, a bruising blocker, cagey quarter, and Gordon Bennett, a tackle already mentioned by Allison Danzig as a candidate for All-American honors...