Word: buffers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accord now reached represents a compromise obviously unsatisfactory to the Persians, who sought to raise the trade limit to 35,000,000 rubles. The threat^ of the railway is primarily inspired by British influence, which aims at strengthening Persia as a buffer state between India and Russia...
...Buffer supper will be served at the Harvard Club of Boston at 6.30 o'clock. At 7.30 Professor C. T. Copeland will read in the Library of the club...
...should have been held in 1894, according to the Treaty of Ancon in 1884; but after decades of wrangling, Chile and Peru voluntarily admitted the hopelessness of trying to hold it themselves and referred the matter to the President of the U.S. Chile desires Tacna-Arica as a strategic "buffer province" to protect her valuable nitrate fields from Peru. Peru has been incensed by the alleged "Chileanization" of Tacna-Arica by Chile in an attempt to "fix" the plebiscite...
...died unbeaten pugilist. Such a buffer as Donnelly Ireland never again will...
...fact," he continued, "a letter, which was written by this gentleman and which contained his views on the formation of such a state, was published in many of the Rhineland newspapers. Such a buffer state was desired by France...