Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curiously enough, those who were most eager for the program of an ambitious League were the first to criticise the creation of such commissions and their tasks. But if one of the chief objects of such a League is to promote world peace, surely the Franco-German frontier is an important point for it to watch. And if the League can ease the tension here by acting as a sort of shock-absorber, protecting at the same time the property rights of France and the personal rights of the inhabitants, it will serve another interest no less important than peace...
...contents of the secret treaties and diplomatic agreements between Germany, Austria and Italy in the years following the Franco-Prussian War, and the real status of the famous Triple Alliance between those nations, knowledge of which has hitherto been confined to a few high European officials, will be completely revealed in the series of texts now being prepared for publication at the Harvard University Press. The first volume, including "Texts of the Treaties and Agreements from 1879 to 1913," will be placed on sale at the end of this week...