Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memories an echo which will never die. We cannot forget that, at the moment the United States entered the War, President Wilson declared that the right was even more precious than peace. We have not forgotten, and we will not forget, that later he described the Rhine as the frontier of liberty. He consecrated his life to the ideals of justice. His name will remain forever in the memory of humanity." The Chamber then adjourned for several minutes...
Rumania. A meeting between Rumanian and Russian representatives is to take place at Vienna in March. Subjects to be discussed: the Dniester frontier, the Ukrainian refugee problem, the future of Bessarabia, recognition of the Bolsheviki by Rumania...
...Colombia a violent earthquake destroyed the small towns of Cumbal and Chile in the region of Ipiales near the Ecuadorian frontier. Volcanoes in the vicinity of the towns were reputed in active eruption. Eighty-five corpses were recovered from the ruins of Cumbal...
...Teschen district, which was divided between the two countries by the Council of Ambassadors on July 28, 1920 after a projected plebiscite had been abandoned, was settled last week in favor of Czecho-Slovakia by the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, which concurred in the frontier described by the Ambassadors...
...Poincare, however, this fear is outweighed by the menace of a restored Germany on the French frontier. With her devastated area ever before her. France dare not relax her strangle hold on Germany until she has reduced her to a second rate power--unless and until the U. S. and Great Britain effectively guarantee her security. While the rest of the powers are slowly recognizing that it does not pay to be vindictive, France has throughout seen clearly that she cannot afford, as matters stand, to be anything else. And if I happened to be a Frenchman, I should doubtless...