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Question: Shall the Baltic city of Vilna belong to Poland (now holding it by authority of the Allied Council of Ambassadors) ; or to Lithuania (which received Vilna from Soviet Russia under a treaty signed between those states...
...Rumanian Government pay compensation for lands expropriated by it from Hungarian citizens? (TIME, Sept. 26); 2) Should the League fix responsibility and apply censure in the matter of the Italian arms which were smuggled into Hungary in defiance of the Treaty of Trianon? (TIME, March 5); 3) Shall the Baltic city of Vilna belong to Poland (now holding it by authority of the Allied Council of Ambassadors); or to Lithuania (which received Vilna from Soviet Russia under a treaty signed between those states...
...belief current abroad was that the U. S. was paved with gold. The father found, of course, no gold covering the Michigan district where he eventually betook himself. But below the surface he found a metal far more useful to the industries of man-copper. He discovered the rich Baltic coppermine in the Lake Superior copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper. He preferred to deal with another subsoil wealth-the oil that John D. Rockefeller and his partners were selling. In that...
...Caesar." Britannia is said to have ruled the waves of all the oceans. Other powers have been content to rule a sea apiece. Rome was the Mediterranean's master. The Kaiser ruled the Baltic. Mussolini claims the Adriatic. To every sea its Caesar?to the Caribbean the mighty...
...Short People. The smallest people in the world are the Negrillos of central Africa and the Aymaras of central South Africa. Almost as short are the Eskimos, Lapps and northern Siberians. They all lack one thing-abundant food. The tallest peoples live along the northern European coasts, along the Baltic, in western Asia, eastern Africa and in the temperate zones of North & South America. Their common possession is abundant food. However there are short peoples (Japanese, Mediterraneans, Central Americans, Fuegians, Malays and southern Asiatics) who have descended from taller stocks and who have an adequate food supply. Because they...