Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the dispute between Turkey and Britain over the Mosul frontier (TIME, Sept. 28) drifted further and further from the immediate jurisdiction of the League of Nations...
Urged by the British, who complained of "Christian deportations and kidnappings conducted by the Turks across the Mosul frontier," the League next announced that it would send a commission to investigate these deportation charges. Turkey then declared before the League that she would refuse to permit such a League committee to enter Turkish territory, branded the British charges as false, and made counter charges of British excursions over the disputed frontier...
...sections: the first to involve covenants guaranteeing the peace of the Rhineland, and the arbitration of all Franco-German differences (with the probable required entrance of Germany into the League); the second, to be concerned with treaties between Germany, Poland and Czecho-Slvakia, guaranteeing the Eastern frontier, and covering general arbitration agreements between the interested nations. From this latter phase of the matter Britain has declared she will hold aloof...
...West, as everyone knows, there is no "organized" baseball. But the towns of Fort Bayard (New Mexico), El Paso (Texas), Juarez (Mexico) and Douglas (Ariz.) have teams which play in the Frontier League., Last year Chase went to Douglas, played on the team. The local Chambermen of Commerce told him to get better players and offered to ' pay for them. He sent for Weaver and Gandil. The Chambermen began to pay out $10,000 a month; the three unfrocked players began to win games for Douglas. Chase plays center field; Gandal is at first; Weaver at shortstop is the best...
...Germany came forward proposing a security treaty. pointed out that, with her army limited to 100,000 men, she was as badly in need of a guarantee of safety as any other nation in Europe. She proposed to guarantee the Rhine frontier and to provide in a joint treaty with France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, that any nation which violated that frontier should ipso facto have declared war on the others...