Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alien's acquiring in Mexico any of the luscious "rights of exploitation" upon which many a non-Mexican purse fattened in the past. Most land-owning corporations will have to be organized with at least 51% of their stock in Mexican banks. Those within 25 miles of the frontier of Mexico must be 100% Mexican. "All natural mixtures of the carbons of hydrogen (i. e., "petroleum," etc.) are vested in the nation," and their transference to foreigners is so restricted as to leave most of the profit in Mexican hands. In short, if the laws come into effect...
...shortest route between Italy and central Germany. The post-War Italo-Austrian frontier bisects this extremely strategic point...
General Laidoner began by recalling that the Turks had refused his commission access to the region on the Turkish side of the Mosul frontier. He then went on to say that the commissioners had cross- examined refugees from this region before there was any possibility of their having been tampered with by British agents. In conclusion he expressed absolute certainty as to the material fact that the Turks have been deporting the non-Moslem inhabitants of this region with frightful barbarity...
...present Mosul frontier to be moved in such a way as to give Turkey a very small increase of territory...
...Council also recommended that: 1) Neutral (Swedish) officers shall supervise the Greco-Bulgar frontier in future. 2) Persons of Greek origin living in Bulgaria shall be transferred to Greece...