Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Life-time" was one of the outstanding biographies of last season, has sailed for Greece on an important unofficial diplomatic mission. He is to take the active chairmanship of the commission under the League of Nations for the settlement of refugees from Anatolia in Western Thrace and Macedonia. 600,000 of these exiles are now given shelter by the Greek government which has deeded more than a million acres of vacant lands to their use. The Greeks have undertaken to raise among themselves 1,000,000 Pounds and the British have made a temporary loan of 6,000,000 Pounds...
This sum is to be used by Greece for settling refugees from Asia Minor on farm lands in Macedonia and elsewhere in Greece. The Greek Government will pledge the customs and tobacco revenue of the country as security...
...pecuniary indemnity, the new State has had a large number of unpleasant boundary questions." Professor Coolidge said, "From Austria and Hungary, enemy States not represented at Paris, the Jugo-Slavs have got almost all they seriously asked. The same thing is true regarding Bulgaria. The last bit of Bulgarian Macedonia has gone to Serbia. Without gong into the Macedonian question, one must say that in spite of the skillful historical and other arguments that have been put forth on the Serbian side, it is hard to dodge two facts. First, until ten years ago the great majority of foreign...