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Another figure from the past who reappeared was Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Poland's rusted little iron man and chief of her vanquished Army, who deserted his fighting troops and skipped across to Rumania a jump ahead of the German Army. From his Carpathian mountain villa, where he had...
There is little of personality involved in this choice. Both of the candidates are competent and hard-working men; both are of the highest character; both have kept their records free from charges of corruption, bossism or machine politics. But here the similarity ends. The two contestants represent ideals and...
Year ago, hired by the U. S. Rural Electrification Administration, Documentarian Ivens marched his crew onto the small dairy and crop farm of lean, leathery William Parkinson in the rolling hills of eastern Ohio. Purpose: to show the rich rewards brought to the Parkinsons by the Federal Government's...
On the walls and poles of the Transvaal this handbill was pasted one day during the Boer War. It described a young newspaper reporter who had fought like a professional soldier when a British armored train was ambushed by Boers; had been captured and held as prisoner of war, had...
Some of these reports were doubtless Polish exaggerations (it was even reported that many of the 1,700,000 Poles sent to Germany to do forced labor were sterilized), but the fact that the Germans failed to let observers from other nations visit Poland indicated that conditions there were gruesome...