Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government to ship arms to any other Government was passed. Britain thereupon introduced an amendment giving Governments the right to search ships suspected of carrying arms designed to foment trouble against them, citing the case of India where arms-smuggling was the cause of constant strife on the Northwest Frontier. The amendment was badly received and discussion was adjourned...
...best book on U. S. history ($2,000) ? to Frederic L. Paxson, for A History of the American Frontier...
Last week, Heracles railway train transported Prometheus Karolyi and his wife across the Canadian frontier, bursting their gyves asunder. The things that the Count wished to say, that the U. S. Department of State forbade him to say and that everybody was anxious he should be allowed to say were said...
General Sikorski, Polish Minister of War, arrived in Paris. Ringing in his ears were the echoes of Germany's plain assertion that she would seek by pacific means "rectification" of the German-Polish frontier...
Latchet. The rod hit the latchet, which was in the shape of a smart German rejoinder that the demilitarized Rhine zone would be kept demilitarized, but that any question of the Polish boundary was out of place in a proposed treaty dealing with the Rhine frontier...