Word: lithuania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hopes to have one million members. It has arranged to hold an exhibition for the purpose of appealing for funds. The exhibition will exemplify the work of the organization by showing maps where the M. O. P. R. is most active (Bulgaria, Esthonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Yugo-Slavia); models of foreign prisons, especially U. S. prisons...
...Norman H. Davis, U. S. Under Secretary of State in the Wilson Administration, now head of a League commission to untangle the 'difficulties which have arisen over the port of Memel, arrived at Memel with the members of the commission to study the problem on the spot. Both Lithuania and Poland have claims to the port, which is an important sea outlet to both nations...
Brand Whitlock, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium during the War, was invited to preside over a neutral commission which is to disentangle the Memel controversy. Memel, a port on the Baltic Sea, was transferred to the Allied and Associated Powers by the Treaty of Versailles and subsequently awarded to Lithuania (after Lithuania had taken it). The Lithuanian Government, however, refused to ratify the agreement of a convention framed to regulate the future of the seaport. Negotiation with the Council of Ambassadors failed and the question was finally referred to the League...
...Europe, whose enrolments total over 500,000 students. Of this total, approximately 100,000 have received direct aid from the Student Relief organization. Up to 1923 this work had been done in 15 nations, and this year four more have been added to the field. These are: Bulgaria, Jugoslavia, Lithuania, and Roumania...
Since the War Great Britain, in an effort to rehabilitate her foreign trade, has made eight trade agreements with the following countries: Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Rumania, Esthonia, Afghanistan, Russia, Czecho-Slovakia...