Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, for the first time since the War, Dutch frontier guards allowed Germans to enter the Netherlands without having their passports visaed. A few hours after this regulation went into force Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst, onetime Crown Prince of Germany, crossed the Dutch frontier and was met at Amersfoort by his uncle, the former Prince Henry of Prussia, that jovial "Sailor Prince" who visited the U.S. in 1902 to officiate at the launching of the Kaiser's U.S.-built yacht. Swiftly the aged uncle and the now perceptibly aging nephew sped to Doorn...
...much love the pan-Germans, who help us, as hate the pan-Italians, who force our children to attend schools conducted only in Italian and harass us in numberless ways. The truth is that we are a 'frontier people' too weak ever to achieve the independence we would like...
...France agrees to assist in the establishment of either of these alternative regimes at the discretion of the Druse Mejliss when it shall be formed. Further, "All that France asks of the Druses, Syrians, Libanians and Alaouites is to guarantee together a common exterior frontier, and for internal disputes to avoid fighting and seek the arbitration of France, whose aims are prosperity, peace and justice. The Druse chiefs now have only to lay down their arms...
...laws to the Alto Adige. I refer both to the laws this Chamber has voted and to those it will vote in the future. We will render the Alto Adige Italian because it is Italian, both historically and geographically. The present boundary at the Brenner Pass is a frontier traced by the infallible hand...
...entering Russia through Poland on my last visit," continued the speaker, in taking up the international policy of the Soviet, "I observed a condition on the frontier which seemed to me symbolic of the attitude of the Russians toward their neighbors. Poland, under the tutelage of France, is a highly militaristic nation overrun by soldiers and bristling with fortifications,--bought with money loaned to them by you and I for the most part, to repair the ravages wrought by other countries in the war. The towns and villages still lie in ruins, but along the entire Poland frontier stretch miles...