Word: lithuania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Question: Shall the Baltic city of Vilna belong to Poland (now holding it by authority of the Allied Council of Ambassadors) ; or to Lithuania (which received Vilna from Soviet Russia under a treaty signed between those states...
...responsibility and apply censure in the matter of the Italian arms which were smuggled into Hungary in defiance of the Treaty of Trianon? (TIME, March 5); 3) Shall the Baltic city of Vilna belong to Poland (now holding it by authority of the Allied Council of Ambassadors); or to Lithuania (which received Vilna from Soviet Russia under a treaty signed between those states...
Trembling witnesses went pale and stuttered with fright as they testified at Kovno last week against the dread onetime Chief of Lithuania's Political Police, Herr Jacob Badchis, now on trial for acts of gross brutality, extortion and malfeasance in office...
...Council sent a telegram to Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, requesting him to appear before it and explain why he has not permitted steps to be taken toward easing the perpetual Lithuano-Polish crisis in accordance with the plan approved by the Council when it last sat (TIME...
Anna Putriuniate, 17, native of Lithuania, dressmaker in Montreal, Canada, wanted to become a resident of the U. S. She paid a man $50 to show her how. He took her one Sunday night to the gorge dam at Niagara Falls, lowered her by a rope to the trestle of the Michigan Central Railroad. With little, cautious steps she walked along the cold steel girders, while the Whirlpool Rapids 250 feet below howled at her. She was shrewd enough to put her legs in trousers instead of flapping, treacherous skirts. She reached U. S. soil. Last week she was arrested...