Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lithuanian Government likewise appealed to the League, requesting that Poland be restrained from occupying "the Lithuanian forest of Podaje" on the Lithuanian-Polish frontier. The Polish Government simultaneously filed an appeal asking that Lithuanian troops be withdrawn from the forest, "which is actually Polish...
Appeals. During the week the Government of Greece appealed to the League to settle certain minor Greco-Turkish frontier disputes, and informed the League Secretariat that the Turkish Government had previously refused a Greek request that these matters be referred to the World Court...
Exacting Puritans who frowned upon the coronation of "Mr. A." as Maharaja over 80,000 acres in the North Indian frontier wilds of Jammu and Kashmir (see above), relapsed into a state of pious admiration for British justice as they learned of the punishment which was meted out last week to the Maharaja of Indore, a state of some 8,000 acres* in extent, conveniently situated in Central India, within the immediate sphere of British influence...
...hear again that tragic dialog which took place when the Chamber was called on to give assent to that treaty! Anxiety for our security occupied every mind. We questioned it. M. Clemenceau was asked would this Anglo-American guarantee hold, for which we had abandoned our natural frontier. We were reminded of certain incidents which showed that, perhaps, America would not, after all, give its approval...
...treaty was ratified 260 to 116, after the Laborites had rehashed the familiar reasons?chiefly "expense"?on account of which Britain should abandon the Christians of the unhappy Mosul frontier region to the Turks. The usual aftermath of crimination and recrimination ensued...