Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Germany. Germany sees herself surrounded by enemies and, as she may not (according to the Versailles Treaty) have an army of more than 100,000 men-a force totally inadequate to protect her frontiers-she has taken a page out of France's book and demanded security on her own account. She has proposed, therefore, to enter into an engagement with France to guarantee the Franco-German frontier and to submit to arbitration any dispute over this eastern boundary. This means nothing less than that Germany has renounced her claim to Alsace and Lorraine, but is not disposed...
...British interest was bound up with the preservation of the Franco-German boundary, by which he meant that Britain could not tolerate an unfriendly Power in possession of the Channel ports and the obvious place to prevent an unfriendly Power from seizing those ports is along the Franco-German frontier...
...Chamberlain advocated acceptance by France of Germany's offer of security. He made it clear that Britain never would undertake to do more than guarantee the Franco-German frontier against unprovoked aggression. He was moreover alleged to have said that, by taking Germany into a five-power Treaty (Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany) the danger of encouraging the latter to form a Russo-German bloc against an Anglo-French bloc would be ended-a clear policy of isolating Russia...
...provide for lasting security. This was an admission that the control machinery, set up after the Versailles Treaty was signed, was breaking down and that France's other allies (CzechoSlovakia, Rumania, Yugo- slavia, Belgium, Poland) were not strong enough to stay a German onslaught on the Franco-German frontier...
...this another instance of the extreme democracy of the frontier spirit? Or is it a revulsion of feeling among European settlers against the observed Ethiopian craze for personal adornment? The urge for decoration moves both the European courtier and the dusky noble. The Capetown celebrity, who has seen the necks of native chiefs hung with alarm-clocks and frying-pans, may yearn with less avidity for the Order of the Garter or of the Bath. The gap between medals and tatooing is no greater than that between Picadilly and the jungle...