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Last week, it was announced that there finally had been an international agreement on this subject. The International Geodetic and Physical Union, meeting at Madrid, Spain, adopted the figures of Director John F. Hayford of the College of Engineering of Northwestern University, noted for his demonstration of the theory of...
The dispute was engendered by the Poles painting the post boxes in the red and white colors of the Polish Republic. The Germans, outraged, retaliated by repainting them in the black, white and red colors of Imperial Germany. The fiery ire of Poles and Germans was temporarily abated by the...
Last week, Mr. Macdonnell ruled that the Poles were not entitled to a separate mailbox service and therefore had no right to paint the Danzig mailboxes in the Polish colors.
Poles were furious. Appeal to the League of Nations at Geneva was lodged. The Polish Army Chiefs began to rattle their sabres. Polish business men said they would not participate in a forthcoming fair at Danzig.
*The Free City of Danzig, with its territory, forms a corridor between Germany and its province of East Prussia and thus allows the Poles an economic outlet to the Baltic Sea. To Germans, the status quo is intolerable; to Poles, it is indispensable; thus, the former, by insidious propaganda, seek...