Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Britain and France thus squarely backing up the Council, reports were soon forthcoming from the embroiled frontier that Greece had backed completely down, withdrawn all troops, and ceased to allege that Bulgarians were attacking her. At a jubilant session of the League Council, M. Briand announced: "The Council is satisfied that its orders have been obeyed and that the troops of both sides have withdrawn. This disposes of the first part of the Council's task in stopping the hostilities...
...TAMING OF THE FRONTIER- Ten Authors, Edited by Duncan Aikman-Minton, Balch...
Hence, the pragmatists of this country who want results before they will buy vacuum cleaners, or theatre tickets, or enter any "lasting covenants" have lost some part of their defense. In eleven lays the League ended the barking along the Greek frontier. And it did this while two cabinets were in a turmoil, and the League itself not actually in session. Surely the League can now stand more firmly on its own feet. The American public need no longer doubt its effectiveness, nor the benefit of an eventual alliance with it. Truly and with expressive results--it worked...
...latest reports emanating from the Near East are to be believed, another periodic Balkan crisis is at hand. Jugo-Slavia buzzes with rumors of an Albanian invasion, and fighting, which had broken out along the Salonikan frontier between Greek and Bulgarian troops, has just been halted by a truce Now Greece has sent a twenty-four hour ultimatum to her aggressive neighbor demanding reparations...
...point off the African coast opposite the Oasis of Jarabub. Gazing toward the Oasis from the shiny deck, the Marquis Negrotto Dicambiaso for Italy and Sidik Pasha for Egypt will determine the exact disposition to be made of the Oasis, and trace the future rectifications of the frontier between Egypt and Italian Tripoli...