Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Experts were appointed to delimit the boundaries of the Free City of Danzig and to formulate laws under which the League High Commissioner in Danzig will be able to arbitrate disputes between the Free City and Poland...
...strip of Polish territory leading to :he sea, west of the free city of Danzig, which strip separates East Prussia from the rest of Prussia, traversing purely German land...
Madame Sans Gene (pronounced san-Géne) was a play written in 1893 by Victorien Sardou, based on a well-known story of the Napoleonic period about Sergeant Pierre null Joseph Lefebvre (later made general, marshal. Duke of Danzig) who married a blan-chisseuse (washerwoman) to the French guards. She, Catharine Hubscher, never varnishing over her early manners, acquired the nickname Madame Sans Géne, rather freely translated as Mrs. Uncouth...
...dispute between Poland and Danzig, called the "Mail Box Dispute" (TIME, Feb. 23), was referred for settlement to a special session of the World Court...
...good rotor ship Buckau, with her whirling iron towers, came to anchor in Leith harbor. She had spent approximately six days at sea, bearing a cargo from Danzig via the Kiel Canal?about three days to Kiel and three days from Kiel to Leith. Her time was not good ?tramp steamers make it in about two-thirds the time?but, during the entire voyage, she encountered storm and head winds that put her to a severe test. Moreover, during a good part of the voyage, she used her auxiliary Diesel engine...