God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present

TWENTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE 307 regarded as a unique national catastrophe. It is amazing how little trouble there was. Within t ...

308 NIEPODLEGLOSC investment funds for Public Works and rural improvements, all contributed to the emergence of a viable system. ...

Its principal achievement was the construction of the Central Industrial Region (COP) in the so-called 'Security Triangle' on th ...

3io NIEPODLEGLOSC school-year of 1928/9, 96 per cent of children of school age between 7 and 14 years were attending school. By ...

TWENTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE 311 with the Vatican gave the Church in Poland wide-ranging autonomy. The Latin, Uniate, and Armeni ...

312 NIEPODLEGLOSC which necessary reforms were constantly delayed and obstructed by the grow- ing influence of his right-wing op ...

TWENTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE 313 that the sin in men's souls could be scrubbed clean by spit and polish. (According to its oppon ...

314 NIEPODLEGLOSC that only a government possessing the confidence of the Sejm and of the nation will meet with our support... ...

TWENTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE 315 ... There are many signs that the Sanacja camp, burdened with the consequences of the violence ...

316 NIEPODLEGLOSC of Fascism or Stalinism. For example, to compare the rigours on the Polish internment camp at Bereza Kartuska ...

TWENTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE 317 innovation, the main sources of inspiration obviously lay elsewhere. Polish cul- ture has never ...

318 NIEPODLEGLOSC Democrat Kurjer Warszawski (Warsaw Courier) to the Pitudski-ite Kurjer Poranny (Morning Courier), set the tone ...

TWENTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE 319 Stalin, but in his naive belief in the sincerity of Allied guarantees and assur- ances.^35 The ...

32.0 NIEPODLEGLOSC common 'Peace Front' with the USSR, on the mistaken assumption that they could strike a bargain with Stalin a ...

TWENTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE 321 1.... 2. In the event of a territorial and political rearrangement of the areas belonging to th ...

ZO GOLGOTA: Poland in the Second World War (1939-1945) The Second World War was started by Sturmban-fuehrer Alfred Helmut Naujoc ...

POLAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 32.3 Map 15. The September Campaign, 1939 6 September, the Polish Command had abandoned its plan ...

324 GOLGOTA the second week, Warsaw was surrounded. On 17 September, uninvited and unannounced, the Soviet army crossed the east ...

POLAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 325 of the combined British and French armies when they, too, faced their baptism of fire in May ...

32.6 GOLGOTA the communique was false, and that they had committed their precious army to sacrifices that were strictly unnecess ...