Word: frontier
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Weight. At the other end of the string, was a German offer to guarantee the Rhine frontier against aggression in a treaty between Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany (TIME, Mar. 16). The offer tacitly agreed to abandon any claim to Alsace and Lorraine, and was in the nature of a frank recognition of the status quo. The Eastern frontier (i.e., the German-Polish-Czecho-Slovakian boundary) was specifically left for final settlement through arbitration...
Probably History will set down his term of office as Viceroy of India (1899-1905) as the greatest episode of his career. He created a new Northwest frontier province, introduced extensive schemes of irrigation, reformed the entire administrative functions of Government, worked assiduously to broaden the educational system of the country. Under Lloyd George, he was Foreign Secretary in the most momentous period of Europe's history; but, as Mr. George was largely his own Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon had to keep much in the background. Under Bonar Law and later in Mr. Baldwin's first administration, he was Foreign...
...British proposals, France had a ready answer. So far as the eastern frontier was concerned, she welcomed British support, but France had other obligations. She was bound by treaties of alliance to Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, whose western frontiers Germany evidently did not recognize. Premier Herriot took this to mean that Germany would seek revision of the territorial clauses of the Versailles Treaty* and that France would be bound to attack such an attitude...
According to German pretentions with regard to the German-Polish, German-Czecho-Slovakian, German-Austrian frontier, it appears to the French that Germany is making an attempt to defeat the territorial clauses of the Treaty, in which case, if she is successful, Germany will have done what many feared, namely, have won the peace...
...Entente armies fighting in France, Marshal Foch was deprived of any power at the Paris Peace Conference. He could make speeches, say what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, but that was all. With all his might he counselled France to extend her northeast frontier to the historic and natural boundary of the Rhine; but the anti-Catholic Clemenceau, no lover of Catholic Foch, would not listen. Indeed, Clemenceau would not listen to much more that the Marshal said...