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Hi!
What is the exact meaning of "polish ac" in the following passage? It is about a lawsuit.
If his thought was that ICJ should determine whichnationalization law to apply, as he seemed to infer at one point inconversation reported Tehran’s 2425, December 26,[SUP]2[/SUP] theywould consider this dangerous principle as court conceivably would apply somepolish act of a confiscatory nature.
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It doesn't make sense.
 

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Where did you find that text? Can you provide a link?
 

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And as we've told you before, when you paste text, it frequently loses the spaces between words. You need edit your post to add those missing spaces.
 

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Where did you find that text? Can you provide a link?
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I saw it in documents of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the US. It is from a political telegram of 1953. It is pertaining to the oil dispute between Persia and England which was to be referred to the International Court of Justice. All those telegrams have a special shortened style.
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Perhaps it's supposed to be the demonym 'Polish'? The article seems to have multiple minor grammatical errors such as missing articles and prepositions.

Even if so, I still don't know what a 'Polish act' might be referring to. Unless it's a derogatory term for something done ineptly, similar to the slurs heard in Polack jokes.
 

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The missing spaces haven't been added in post #1 and pars has not returned to the thread to reply or even click Like/Thank so I'm closing it.
 

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Even if so, I still don't know what a 'Polish act' might be referring to.

I can't think of anything. It could be a text error.
 

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The only thing I can think of is that there are more missing words and that it should have been something like:

... they would consider this dangerous principle as court conceivably would apply some polish to the/an act of a confiscatory nature."


​The rest of it still doesn't make any sense, admittedly!
 
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