Word: lithuania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More broadly, he is here to cooperate with other Chief Rabbis (e. g., the Chief Rabbi of Lithuania) to get money for all European and Near East Jewish schools...
Professor Hudson, who has been a member of the legal section of the secretariat of the Lague of Nations since 1919, outlined some of the accomplishments of the first five years of the League. "Disputes between Sweden and Finland, Poland and Lithuania, Poland and Germany, Jugo Slavia and Albania, and Italy and Greece have all been satisfactorily settled," he declared, "and war, which threatened in each case, has been averted. I have never seen a time so intense, a time so difficult to resist hysteria, as when the Corfu question was being discussed. There has been much comment in regard...
...Memel Convention was signed between Lithuania and the Powers. The Memel dispute involved the former East Prussian port of Memel and the mouth of the Niemen River, full control over which was sought by the Lithuanian Republic. Norman H. Davis, Manhattan publicist, acting as special agent of the League, provided the settlement. Lithuania gets Memel. Traffic on the river, which serves the commerce of Germany, Poland and Russia, is to be free. The Lithuanians pretended to object. Poland did object. Russia barked...
...naturally had to have some standard coin, and have thus 'been the source of several new ones. The Republic of Lavia adopted the "lat," equal to a gold French franc, or 19.3? in U. S. money. The Free State of Danzig chose the "gulden" of about equal value. Lithuania, however, in establishing its new standard coin, the "lit," fixed its value as equal to 10? in U. S. money. Poland beginning Jan. 1, 1924, introduced its new gold standard coin, the "zloty," equivalent to the gold French franc...
...conference between the Republics of Poland, Lithuania, Esthonia and Finland, "for the purpose of establishing an economic and political understanding," started its deliberations at Warsaw, capital of Poland...