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...This week violence was abroad in Germany: a large barracks of Adolf Hitler's Elite Guard at Konstanz, just across the border from Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, burned; 43 were killed and 60 injured in a collision of two passenger trains on a single track line near Oppeln, Prussia...
...Republic of Poland was set up in business, map-makers of the British Foreign Office drew a north-south line halfway across Eastern Europe to represent what they considered should be the "legitimate frontier" between newly reborn Poland and Russia. This line started from the easternmost boundary of East Prussia and went directly south through Brest-Litovsk and some miles west of Lwów. Excluded from Poland, according to this mapmaking, were the White Russians and the Ukrainians who were later to form such large minorities of a greatly expanded Poland...
...front or on the seas (see p. 31). But even if and when they do, even if some great attack should sweep the Germans out of the ocean, some air armada lay Berlin in the dust, some huge offensive run the Reich's soldiers all the way through Prussia and chase Herr Hitler off his cliff at Berchtesgaden, it may well be that these are not the deeds of which Britain will be proudest in World War II. It may be that the greatest victories will have been won at home, in the vast cooperative efforts of British citizens...
...show his complete and sincere devotion to the Magyar people. Karl's efforts were doomed to frustration from the outset. Out of the wretched peace at Versailles came a new doctrine of brute force. Mercifully he did not live to see Vienna fall an easy prey to a remilitarized Prussia. Even as twilight descended upon the House of Hapsburg, darkness was once more beginning to fall all over Europe...
...Germany. Germany gets almost the whole of Poland's great industrial areas and roughly half the population of what was Poland, but gives up the common frontier she sought with Rumania as a source of oil. The Soviet Union for the first time gets a frontier with East Prussia and with Hungary, which hurriedly last week patched up its broken-down diplomatic relations between Budapest and Moscow by appointing a new minister to Moscow...