Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngest son did even more. Last week Devi Das Gandhi, 20, was to have married the 19-year-old daughter of his father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing, he knew he would surely be captured. Be tween love and duty Devi Das did not long waver. He went to the railroad station in New Delhi where a squad of police men pounced upon him, clapped him into jail. Said he: "While I am deeply...
...judicial meaning of the word but also such military actions as intervention, blockade, military occupation of foreign territory, etc". Yet in the very next year, the U.S.S.R. denied that its actions in Manchuria, which included armed invasion of Chinese territory, bombardment by land and air of Chinese frontier towns, and the defeat of the local Chinese troops, constituted an infringement of the Pact of Paris. No other Power supported the United States in invoking the Pact and the Soviet eventually succeeded in forcing the Chinese to enter into direct negotiations, precisely as Japan is attempting to do at present...
...Excellency feels bound to emphasize that he will not be prepared to discuss with you the measures which the Government of India, with the full approval of His Majesty's Government, have found it necessary to adopt in Bengal, the United Provinces and the North-west Frontier Province...
First act last week of Switzerland's newly-elected President Giuseppe Motta (born near the Italian frontier, three times previously elected president-1915, 1920 & 1927) was to draw attention to a little- noticed clause in the new Swiss Military Penal Code making it a crime for Swiss to enlist without the Government's authorization under a foreign flag. As late as the 18th Century Spain, France and the Pope hired Swiss mercenaries. Pope Pius XI still has a Swiss Guard.† Whether they, in serving under the Papal flag, are now criminals under Swiss law did not appear...
...Martial music receded as the frontier was driven back, and life in Georgia took on a richer note. Master workmen from over the sea built manor houses of English brick, and English airs were sung to the plucked melodies of harpsichords in great colonial halls...