Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have an army of more than 100,000 men-a force totally inadequate to protect her frontiers-she has taken a page out of France's book and demanded security on her own account. She has proposed, therefore, to enter into an engagement with France to guarantee the Franco-German frontier and to submit to arbitration any dispute over this eastern boundary. This means nothing less than that Germany has renounced her claim to Alsace and Lorraine, but is not disposed to recognize the eastern boundary which cuts Prussia in two at its northern extremity and divides Germany from...
...attend a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations. He had come, he said, to obtain information and not to enter into agreements. From what was known of his conversations with Premier Edouard Herriot, he admitted that British interest was bound up with the preservation of the Franco-German boundary, by which he meant that Britain could not tolerate an unfriendly Power in possession of the Channel ports and the obvious place to prevent an unfriendly Power from seizing those ports is along the Franco-German frontier...
...Heidelberg, famed University town, in the year 1871-the year that saw the end of the Franco-Prussian War-that a baby was born to the wife of Tailor Ebert. That baby was christened Friedrich and was known as "Fritz...
...Turkey entered the war on the side of Germany," said M. Moukbil, "in order to protect herself against the aggressions of a Russo-Franco-British entente which was planning to take Constantinople and the coasts of the Black Sea to give to Imperial Russia. This is substantiated by documents from the Russian archives recently made public by the Soviet Government...
...Allies. Although he vigorously maintained, as Monarch, a proper attitude of neutrality, he personally went farther in assisting the Allies than did any other neutral sovereign. His first act was to assure France through his Government that there was no need to maintain a large Army on the Franco-Spanish frontier. The French relied upon his assurances and transferred no less than three army corps from the Pyrenees to the battlefields of northern France. More signal proof of his attachment to the Allied cause were his efforts on the behalf of prisoners-of-war and his great services in ascertaining...