Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ultimate peace offering that the Germans, sooner or later, are bound to make. The propitious moment arrived. France views with no inconsiderable alarm the position at Lausanne and more particularly in Syria, where both Turkish and French troops are glaring at each other with nothing between them except a frontier. The British are endeavoring to align themselves with Italy in forcing an issue in the Ruhr and in insisting upon full representation at a conference with the Germans. The blow is well timed, for France can hardly afford to risk a break with both Britain and Italy. As a corollary...
...taught at Wisconsin until 1910 when he came to the University as professor of history. He is the holder of several honorary degrees, including that of Litt.D. from the University (1909), and is recognized as one of the leading authorities on American history, particularly the history of the western frontier. He is the author of "The Rise of the New West" (1906) and "The Frontier in American History" (1920). He is a member of many learned societies, and during the year 1910-11 served as president of the American Historical Association. His retirement from the University teaching staff will take...
...delicate and might lead to war between France and Turkey on the smallest inadvertent provocation by local troops. Neither Turkey nor France can afford to risk such an event, which would assuredly wreck the Lausanne conference. Nevertheless, the Turks met the French ultimatum to withdraw troops from the Syrian frontier by increasing their army from 20,000 to 30,000 men, and the French have sent two divisions into Syria...
...Edouard Benes, CzechoSlovakian Foreign Minister, said that the Government opposed the principle of retaliation but, in this case, felt constrained to resort to reprisals in order to bring to an end a long series of frontier disputes, one of which ended in the killing of a Czech customs officer...
...request from Lithuania, who asks permission to bring before the International Court at The Hague an appeal against the recent decision of the Council of Ambassadors in connection with the Polish-Lithuanian frontier dispute...