Word: polese
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In the old world the brutal oppression exercised by Byzantines, Tartars, Turks was, from the nature of the times, understandable enough. That the fierce hatred of the Greeks and the Turks in the present era led to minority expulsions was comprehensible, considering the semi-civilization that permeates those countries. But...
For two days, trainloads of refugees arrived in each country. The brutality of the Poles was unsurpassed. Allegedly women with week-old babies were forced to join the German exodus. Many adults and a number of babies died. German families, settled in Upper Silesia for life, as they thought, were...
Germans claimed with overpowering logic that the whole area, rich in coal and other minerals, was geographically and economically indivisible; but divided it was. "Never," said that great German Jew, Walther Rathenau, "has such a hard fate befallen our land." An economic condominium was successfully negotiated which had for its...
Some months ago, the Poles obtained a ruling from the Permanent International Court of Justice at the Hague, confirming the justice of their contention that all Germans who had voted for Germany in the 1921 plebiscite and who were incorporated in the Polish Republic (there are 400,000 of them...
As described above, the German Government took retaliatory measures by repatriating Poles, and the exodoi were completed. There the matter stood and will stand until Dec. 1, when the biting cold of a Silesian winter will add, incongruously enough, fuel to the raging fire of hate that one day must...