Word: lithuania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France is owed, principally by partially insolvent or bankrupt countries (Russia, Belgium, Yugo-Slavia, Rumania, Greece, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Italy, Montenegro, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary and Austria), a total of 15,282,000,000 gold francs ($2,949,426,000). Hence the French feel justified in excluding their debts to England and America from consideration in their budgets, until the matters of Germany's reparations and the debts of other nations to France can likewise be considered...
...cardinal features of the Premier's speech: 1) Good relations with Great Britain, France, Italy. 2) Good relations with the United States, Belgium, Japan. 3) Good relations with Germany. 4) Genuine peace with Russia and Lithuania, despite Russia "upsetting the world concience" and Lithuania giving "incessant provocations." 5) The statement that "the establishment of rational relations between the States erected on the ruins of the Central Powers must be based on a coordination of Polish, Czecho-Slovakian and Yugoslavian policies toward Central European problems. The establishment of these relations, including as well the Baltic countries, will consolidate the peace...
...river Memel flows from the North East of Poland through the South West of Lithuania and into the sea some 30 miles west of the town of Memel. In February the Lithuanians seized the town and the estuary, which was then under the administration of the League of Nations. Subject to Lithuania making an agreement with the Poles regarding transit facilities in Memel territory, the Council of Ambassadors allowed Lithuania to keep the port, the estuary and the adjacent territory...
...Kelimas says that to grant Poland free navigation rights through the territory of Lithuania would be to invite dangerous political intrigues...
...last of the four, Professor Hudson particularly elaborated, showing how the League of Nations had first settled the dispute between Finnland and Sweden over the Aaland Islands, and later territorial disputes between Poland and Lithuania and between Jugo-Slavia and Albania, in all of which cases war might have followed except for intervention by the League...