Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FRONTIER...
...correspondent of the London "Daily Mail". Germany and Russia are in the act of concluding an alliance which will give combined strength enough for a satisfactory vengeance on France. Meanwhile Poland is to be repartitioned, and the greater part annexed to Russia, to give the two countries a common frontier. Then Germany and Russia will make a new treaty which will at least have the virtue of satisfying them both...
...shrewd professor", says the current number of the Independent in a short dissertation on Frontier Wars in College, "goes at his task by indirection, by raising frontier disputes with his neighbors. Since the dividing lines between subjects of study, like those between nations, are usually quite arbitrary and accidental, this is not hard to do". In so far as the impartial college president will permit it, so the periodical infers, our instructors are engaged in an unceasing border warfare which results in a balance of power as proclaimed in the announcement of courses. "To multiply subjects is to multiply rivalries...
...degree of enduring success, they must be met and solved by the same straight thinking, forward looking processes of thought and action that laid the foundations of the Anglo-American common law and erected upon them the sturdy bulwarks of the American Republic. Into this atmosphere, charged with the frontier spirit of the American pioneer, the coming generation of lawyers will step, and the nation and the world will lay much store upon the hardihood, endurance, straight thinking and fearless acting of these men. To be one of those may well be deemed a privilege...
Breaking her treaty with the Triple Alliance and joining the Allies in the war, Roumania was rapidly overwhelmed by Russian treachery. However, upon the abolition by the Allies' victory of the Treaty of Bucharest in which she had surrendered to Hungary certain valuable frontier districts, she came into possession of all of the Hapsburg territories which she had long desired. With these territories and the province of Bessarabia, Roumania becomes a powerful factor in the affairs of Europe...