Word: lithuania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great Britain .................................... $92,575,000.00* Belgium ................................................ 1,125,000.00 Hungary ................................................ 39,724.53 Lithuania ................................................ 47,896.35 Poland ....................................................1,000,000.00 Czechoslavakia ........... 1,500,000.00 Estonia.............................75,000.00 Finland...
...Poland & Lithuania. From Warsaw straight to the Hotel des Bergues came, last week, Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski. His red and gold salon carriage* blazoning the white eagle of Poland had barely stopped at the Geneva station when French Consul General Ame LeRoy stepped aboard and gently took in tow the tigerish Marshal. Bystanders smiled when this arch-militarist appeared in a civilian suit and soft felt hat. They sobered, however, as his hand snapped automatically to return a salute and he stalked from the station with long, dynamic strides...
...with sword and spurs? both statesmen settled quietly to the business which had brought Marshal Pilsudski to Geneva; the Polish-Lithuanian frontier crisis (TIME, Dec. 12). Already M. Briand was in confidential possession of all the facts. On previous days he had several times received the Prime Minister of Lithuania, stocky, spiky-haired Professor Augustine Valdemaras. There had been a four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland, who preceded Pilsudski to Geneva. The Council had even laid down provisional...
Notably the district of Vilna, birthplace of Marshal Pilsudski, changed hands between Lithuania and Poland no less than five times in the year 1920. Eventually Vilna was seized with great firmness by the Polish General Zeligovski (Oct. 9, 1920), and this fait accompli was recognized by the Council of Ambassadors (TIME, March 31, 1923). Since 1920, however, both countries have remained in a nominal "state of war," and quarrels on every possible minor issue have been incessant...
Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania (less picturesque and well known than Marshal Pulsudski) was the first prime minister of his country (1918), and has represented Lithuania at almost every important international conference since. A scholar, a brilliant speaker commanding ten languages, he bases his political strength squarely on a platform of ardent nationalism. That he has been of many nationalities, in the legal sense, is explained by the fact that the district in which he was born has been, during his lifetime, once Russian, once German, several times Lithuanian and is now Polish. By general repute Premier Valdemaras is deemed relatively...