Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mosul. "The two parties, Turkey, which is not yet a member of the League, and Great Britain have agreed to refer the delimitation of the northern frontier of Mesopotamia to the Council of the League. The Council, following what is becomiing a common practice, has referred the technical question to a small committee presided over by Count Teleki, an ex-Prime Minister of Hungary, which will make an inquiry on the spot and report to the Council. I am glad to say that both countries have already agreed to accept the decision of the Council, whatever...
Iraq. The League commission that is to decide the delimitation of the Iraq-Turkish frontier must have been happy in the knowledge that a paternal Secretary General was looking after its interests...
...Although he vigorously maintained, as Monarch, a proper attitude of neutrality, he personally went farther in assisting the Allies than did any other neutral sovereign. His first act was to assure France through his Government that there was no need to maintain a large Army on the Franco-Spanish frontier. The French relied upon his assurances and transferred no less than three army corps from the Pyrenees to the battlefields of northern France. More signal proof of his attachment to the Allied cause were his efforts on the behalf of prisoners-of-war and his great services in ascertaining...
...tell of a trip, by cattle boat from Trinidad to the penal colony. On this trip, he stopped at Demarara, in British Guiana, and thence continued on to Cayenne, where he observed the tragic life of the French convicts. From there he crossed the Maroni River to Albina, the frontier of Dutch Guiana, where he visited the villages of the Carid Indians and the primitive bush negroes. With the negroes, he travelled by canoe through the heart of the tropical forests of Dutch Guiana to the Cottoca River, and on to Paramaribo, the end of his trip. His speech tonight...
...steel and stogies, for smoke-belching glass factories, for a fuliginous smoke pall, for soot and cinders and fabulous fortunes that the popular mind has pictured piled in spilling, golden mounds among dark mountains -for these things has Pittsburgh been famous since men forgot how she was once a frontier fort in the Red Indians' forest...