Word: vistula
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Contribution to the Danzig "debate" last week by Propaganda Minister Dr. Joseph Paul Goebbels: "It is strange logic for the Poles to claim Danzig because it lies at the mouth of the Vistula-we are not claiming Rotterdam because it lies at the mouth of the Rhine...
...rules over the mouth of the Vistula rules over Poland better than the King of Poland himself...
Thus commented Frederick the Great of Prussia, who himself was a leading carver in the 18th-Century first partition of Poland. His words have not been lost on a 20th-century admirer, Adolf Hitler, who has lately demanded for Germany the Free City of Danzig, at the Vistula's mouth. Unfortunately for Herr Hitler, Poland's present rulers can also read and they showed last week in many ways that they too appreciated Frederick's maxim...
...exponent of appeasing the dictators, announced that Britain and France were negotiating with Eastern European nations (understood to include Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece) a tight system of military agreements to resist further Nazi aggression. In the meantime, moreover, the British Government was prepared to consider the Vistula, the river that flows through the Polish Corridor, just as much its frontier as it has long considered the Rhine. He added...
...Poland, M. Delbos was entitled to a good reception, for plans are afoot for a French loan to erect a great Polish armament and heavy industry centre on the Vistula River. Hence Warsaw gave M. Delbos a festive few days. But Poland is notoriously half in Hitler's arms, and long, lean Colonel Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister and player of ticktacktoe with General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was adamant against obliging M. Delbos by so much as a communique lauding the League of Nations. The most that grudging Beck would do was sign with Delbos a communique that "both...