Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski left Warsaw a fortnight ago, ostensibly to "take the cure" at a sanatorium for nervous diseases in Druskieniki on the Lithuanian frontier. Rumors spread that the Marshal's notoriously irresolute brain was tottering. Then his personal jingoist news organ Armed Poland flaunted a demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain...
...Franco-Spanish frontier, eagerly questioned travelers from Spain declared: "Weyler is after Primo's scalp again." They meant, of course, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. He had, it was reported, lent the weight of his notorious influence to a band of his henchmen, who counted on marching from Barcelona to Madrid and Power-even as Dictator Primo made exactly that same "march à la Mussolini" (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). The active leaders of the revolt were 18 generals and a round dozen of Liberal and Communist politicians. General Aguilera, onetime Minister...
...hours later a Dutch soldier, guarding the frontier at Eysden, was struck dumb when a man in a long military cloak approached him, hesitated, said: "I am the Emperor of Germany. Here is my sword...
...most markedly successful applications of the British diplomatic steamroller to an Oriental people was accordingly signalized last week when representatives of Turkey, Irak and Great Britain signed at Angora a ten-year pact of security and nonaggression, apportioning the Vilayet and Village of Mosul to Irak-the Turko-Irak frontier to be delimited by a Swiss chairmaned commission within six months, approximately as adjudicated by the League. Further treaty provisions: 1) Turkey to be granted 10% of the revenue of the Mosul oil fields for 25 years. 2) Turkey to be empowered to sell these revenue interests. 3) Mutual security...
Lithuanian troops busied themselves last week in expelling across their border a detachment of Polish frontier guards who had wandered into Lithuania while celebrating with valiant potations the Pilsudski coup. (TIME, May 24 et seq., POLAND...