Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orsay, and by M. Fromageot, French international jurist. Then began conversations between the French Foreign Minister and the British Foreign Secretary to decide upon an answer to Germany's recent note relative to the proposed Rhine Treaty which is to guarantee the status quo on the frontier between France and Germany (TIME, June 22). For this had M. Briand braved La Manche (the English Channel...
About the time of his triumph at Melilla, Abd-el-Krim posed as the President of the Riff Republic; but things have changed since those days. He carried the war against the Spanish outside of the Riff, and, desiring a better frontier for his State, as he calls it, he warred against the French. It has been said that he attacked the French to force a resettlement of Morocco; this is probably true; but it made necessary a larger army. The question of soldiers was something Abd-el-Krim never had to worry about. The fame of his victories spread...
...place where Prague with its thousand monuments dreams in a fortressed valley. The cost of this trip by plane is $4-the equivalent of a third-class fare by rail; it occupies 1 hour and 40 minutes; the train takes 8 hours, including an hour at the frontier. No wonder that the directors of the Franco-Rumanian line announced last week that their passenger and freight traffic had multiplied by five in the past year...
...having filled their engagement at Denver, went to Cheyenne (scene of the recent Teapot Dome oil suit) and took part in many astounding events: Mr. Dawes acted as director pro tern, in the filming of a Western picture, The Pony Express (James Cruze and Betty Compson). He reviewed a Frontier Days parade, was made a member of a Sioux tribe, abandoning his regular pipe for one two feet long with eagle feathers, was christened "Great White Father No. 2" (at the same function, Governess Ross was made "Princess Nellie Taylor"). He entertained a banjo-accordion-saxophone-violin orchestra...
Early in the year Germany intimated to France that she was willing in the interests of peace to guarantee the status quo of the frontier dividing Germany from France and Belgium, but specifically left for peaceful negotiations all questions relative to the boundary which separates the Reich from Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. Britain later agreed, subject to parliamentary ratification, to guarantee the powers on both sides of the Franco-Belgo-German frontier against unprovoked aggression...