Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rebecca West, English lady novelist, considers this frontier, blow-in-your-pile, forty-niner spirit charming. So it may be to a few; the most delicate women may like men with hairy wrists. But New York's lumberjack psychology dispels any idea that America is civilized. Rather it seems that here are the germs of new Dark Ages...
Jagged Edges. Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France, anxious to conciliate, was hampered by the report made at Paris last week by Marshal Foch that Germany has not entirely fulfilled her disarmament obligations under the Versailles Treaty. (Specifically German forts on the Polish frontier have been strengthened instead of dismantled; and the secret training of young men for military service has not entirely ceased.) The Allied Council of Ambassadors, administering the Versailles Treaty, telegraphed M. Briand at Geneva that they would only indorse the substitution of League control for military control if the German Foreign Minister would give positive assurance...
...Treaty. 2) The instances of German failure to disarm cited in the Foch report will be settled by negotiation among the Powers, and should this fail will be referred to the Council of the League of Nations. 3) Ad interim all work on the German forts along the Polish frontier shall stop. 4) The present Allied military commissioners in Germany will be permitted to remain, although reduced in numbers, as "technical experts" attached to the Allied legations in Berlin...
President Ahmed Bey Zogu and Premier Cena Bey announced last week the signing of a treaty whereby Italy (which lies just across the Adriatic) guarantees the Albanian status quo for five years and each nation covenants to enter no agreement disadvantageous to the other. Jugoslavians whose frontier bounds Albania upon the north wrathfully descried in the new treaty a virtual Italian protectorate over Albania, something which Jugoslavia has long desired for herself...
Rail Congestion. So drastic are the new passport regulations affecting persons entering or leaving Italy that last week many of the trains crossing the Italian frontier were almost empty. Returning travelers told of standing in line for hours while Italian passport and customs inspectors pored over papers and luggage which they usually pass with a perfunctory inspection or a paternal...