Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took it for granted that Germany was honest and was willing to pay what was possible, and that the Allies were not bent on crushing Germany permanently both economically and politically. The Dawes Plan also recognized the difficulty of making the transfer of such vast payments across the German frontier. The transfer was no longer a duty of the German Government but of the Agent General for Reparations at Berlin. If he found it impossible to transfer Reparation payments from Berlin to Paris, London, and the other Allied capitals, the "transfer clause" of the Dawes Plan provided for a temporary...
...Complete Independence) as "an academic change involving no immediate consequences." In Manhattan, Chairman Sailendranath Ghose of the Indian Nationalist Association of America talked boldly of arming a million Indians for revolution but had no theory as to how a million rifles could be smuggled into India past alert British frontier guards...
...honesty- a fact which often causes painful misunderstanding. Last week the millions of Spanish-blooded folk who live outside of Spain were thrilled to the marrow by a lengthy and ornate oration, the text of which had been smuggled past Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera's censors and frontier guards at risk of life and limb. These smuggled words are the very avatar of Spanish honor. They are the stenographic minutes of the successful but mercilessly suppressed plea which Don José Sanchez Guerra, four times Prime Minister of Spain, made to a court martial in Valencia, before whom...