Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many U. S. journals ignorantly write about Britain's oil interests in Mosul and lead their readers to suppose that the recent controversy was in reality over oil. This is a misconception. The settlement reached had to do only with the frontier. The question of whether the Mosul and its rich oil district is, or is not, to revert to Turkish sovereignty has yet to be decided by the League...
...English women who have gone out there have never understood the native side of the question and have caused a good deal of trouble for the officials of all ranks. There is a little unrest on the Northwest frontier as usual, but it was not very serious when I left India...
...North China. Along a line south of the Manchurian frontier, the armies of Super-Tuchuns Wu and Chang battled for supremacy...
Ismet Pasha, Turkish Foreign Minister, swearing by all his gods that Turkish troops had not crossed the boundary (i.e.. the boundary as set by Turkey), warned the League, last week, that if British troops committed acts of aggression on the frontier, Britain must shoulder the entire responisiblity...
Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Britain, expostulating that British troops had remained on the Iraq side of the frontier (i.e., what Britain said was the Iraq side), requested the League for an immediate Council meeting to deal with the difficulty. The Council of the League informed Sir Eric Drummond, League Secretary General, that it would hold "as soon as possible" an extraordinary session to consider the Anglo-Turkish dispute...