Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sforza, Foreign Minister in the last Giolitti Cabinet, who, in a letter to the YugoSlavian Government, recognized its claims to the adjacent port of Barros. In Article 4 of the Treaty of Rapallo the contracting Powers recognized the independence of Fiume in perpetuity. Article 5 set up a special mission to delimit the zone of Fiume. The mission, however, encountered a good deal of opposition from the heterogeneous " Fiumians" who were not represented on the mission, and the status of Porto Barros became a sore point between Yugo-Slavia and Italy. Another conference was called which resulted in the Agreement...
...mission, now a Tripartite concern, went to work to apply the terms of the Treaty of Rapallo and the Agreement of Santa Margherita. But, the geographical situations of Sussak (a suburb of Fiume) and Porto Barros created many difficulties in regard to the administration of Fiume. Moreover, Yugo-Slavia wanted Porto Barros completely under her own sovereignty. It is the question of Porto Barros that has delayed a settlement so long...
...Soviet Foreign Office despatched a stiff note to the Bulgarian Government concerning the expulsion and ill treatment of the Russian Red Cross Mission...
...note Charges that the Bulgarian authorities joined the White Russians living in Bulgaria in instituting a regular system of persecution against the mission. Torture, murder, beatings, imprisonment, confiscation are cited in numerous cases. The Bulgarian Government is accused of conducting a "scandalous campaign " against the mission by insisting (apparently without good cause) that "many documents of an incriminating nature had been in its offices...
General Weyler, head of a special mission from the General Staff, left for Melilla to arrange for another campaign against the Riffians; the object being to restore Spanish power over that territory. The war, if undertaken, will mark the close of a year of troubled peace in Spanish Morocco...