Word: galicia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Bulgars, Serbs, Croats) while Poland, remembering her fate as a part of Russia, is strongly against a movement that might eventually resubject her to Russian authority. Another important difference, intimately related to the Pan-Slav question, is that Czechoslovakia is opposed to the award of Galicia to Poland, because such an arrangement interferes with Czecho-Slovakian plans for a Pan-Slav corridor reaching from Russia in the northeast to Yugo-Slavia in the south...
...declared that he had advised Count Skrzynski, Polish Foreign Minister, that a fuller measure of autonomy was necessary to Eastern Galicia than was contemplated in the decision of the Council of Ambassadors (reference the award of Eastern Galicia to Poland...
...dispute over Vilna, ancient capital of Lithuania, has been, to all intents and purposes, settled by the award of that town and a part of Eastern Galicia to Poland by the Council of Ambassadors in Paris. The frontier of Poland is now the same as that laid down by the League of Nations last month-the Council of Ambassadors finding themselves in complete agreement with the decision of the League...
...outbreak of the Great War Mr. Brasol enlisted in the Russian Guards as a volunteer with the rank of Second Lieutenant, and fought in the successful campaign against the Austro-German armies in Galicia. After a long period of arduous fighting, in which his health suffered severely, he was appointed Military Prosecuting Attorney in charge of the trial of General Souschomlimor, former Russian Minister. At the conclusion of this trial, at which the General was convicted of treason and sentenced to imprisonment for life, Lieutenant Brasol was sent by the Russian Government to England. He remained there nine weeks...