POLAND: West Wind

Ultra-patriotic are the German inhabitants of Upper Silesia, who live along the Polish frontier and face the fourth largest army in Europe. Last week following the decree of President von Hindenburg making Germany's old black, white & red tri-color legal again, they erected a flagstaff just six feet from the Polish frontier near the Polish town of Katowice, hoisted to its top a German flag ten feet long. With the wind from the east Polish guards scowled, but did nothing. When the wind veered west and blew four feet of the flag over...

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