Word: curzon
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When our country reaches the state of the milk bottle it will be confronted by a serious problem; but this same situation has already arisen in Asia Minor; and Lord Curzon, on behalf of England--and, supposedly, the rest of Europe,-- has advised that the millions Greeks, Armenians and the other Christian minorities in the country beyond the Aegean, be transported from the path of the Turk. He fears that, if they should remain, massacres on a more terrible scale might occur, and that it is better to leave Kemal and Ishmet and their followers room for expansion...
...armistice just concluded at Riga, which will presumably be the frontier adopted in the future peace treaty, it seems to me that the Poles have marked out a very reasonable and just frontier. It is true that this line is far east of the line recently proposed by Lord Curzon in the name of the British Government; but the Curzon line was never intended by anyone but the English to be a final boundary of Poland. It is true that the Riga line lies far east of the ethnographical limits of Poland as shown on most racial maps, but these...
Colonel Lawrence is well acquainted with the subject on which he will speak, for since to summer of 1914 he has been continuously connected with the British War Office. He was commissioner for Lord Kitchener in France until the latter's death. Then he became Lord Curzon's French representative in questions connected with the English air service. Since 1917 he has been Liaison Officer between the War Officer and the Minister of Pensions...
...statesman in the Indian Empire, Sir Walter was Knighted. He had entered the Civil Service there in 187 and from then until 1905 he was constantly occupied with important duties. At different times he held the posts of secretary to the Government of India, private secretary to Lord Curzon, Viceroy, and chief of staff to the present King and Queen when they visited India...
Before the beginning of the war he spent 21 years in India as a member of the India Civil Service, during which time he held many offices. At various times he acted as secretary to the government of India, private secretary to Lord Curzon, Chief of Staff to the present King and Queen when they visited India in 1905, and a member of the Council of India...