Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Incidentally, the remark also has been made during the debate that no fortifications are being built at strategic points along the 3,000 miles of the Canadian-American frontier, and this is used as an argument against the Singapore base...
Restricted Areas. With the object of preventing shipment of munitions to backward nations (chiefly in Africa), certain areas (including the Gulf of Persia on which many rifles are carried to the Northwest frontier) were placed in prohibitive zones. Persia, who saw her sovereignty threatened, was offended, left the Conference...
Germany, last February, offered to enter into an equal engagement with Britain, France and Belgium to guarantee the Rhine frontier against aggression. This meant two things: 1) That Germany was prepared voluntarily to do what the Allies had been unable to force her to do-renounce all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, accept the present frontier; 2) that Germany, as a disarmed nation, was more in need of security than France, a heavily armed nation. Unfortunately, the offer was complicated by a categoric assertion that the proposed treaty in no way bound Germany to accept the Eastern frontiers between Poland...
Britain, after some hesitation, agreed to range herself against whichever nation violated the treaty by attacking the Rhine frontier, but she flatly declined to be a party to anything more, and stated that Germany must become a member of the League of Nations before the proposed treaty came into force...
...fortified positions- had behind it all the important and most of the small zocos (markets). Along the coast, from Tetuán to Melilla, warships were posted; and, at the last place, the Spanish held another zone extending almost to the limit of Spanish Morocco near the Algerian frontier. A blockade had been declared...