Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...omnipotent in this crisis as fell Death himself, but all to no purpose. "His adamant heart did not melt. The master completed the transaction." Nepal is about the size of Florida, contains about 5,500,000 people and is an entirely independent country on the north frontier of the Indian Empire. The Maharaja is not a despot, as has been circulated in the daily press. The Government is in the hands of a military oligarchy, but all political power is in the hands of a Prime Minister and that office appears to be hereditary in the family of His Highness...
...reminded the enthusiastic Deuties that France gave up her historical claims to the Rhine as her military frontier in return for a tripartite defense treaty( U.S., Britain, France) which never materialized. "But now," he continued, "while France is being asked to keep and is seeking to keep her engagements, has she not a right to say to her allies and associates, 'Remember your own engagements, reread the texts of the discussions during the framing of the peace treaty. Think how, while France is seeking to establish peace, she has a dagger pointing within a few centimeters of her heart...
...mountain streams trickle through the Black Forest, unite at Donaueschingen, about 20 miles from the Swiss border and 40 miles from the French frontier, and the Danube (German, Donau) begins its 1725-mile flow through Wiirttemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Yugo-Slavia, Bulgaria and Rumania to empty itself into the Black...
...That is not all. There are 800,000 young women compelled to sterility because 800,000 young men have died. There are suffering and sickness and the loss of millions of frontier population to be estimated...
Next morning, he and his companion, one ''Williams," another U. S. Communist in exile, resumed their trip to Constantinople. Hours later, peasants saw them near the Turkish frontier as they plodded wearily through a blinding snowstorm. Then the impenetrable blanket of the storm enveloped them. They have not since been heard...