Word: niemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Those limits: "From the Maas" (the Meuse, which flows through northern France, Belgium and The Netherlands) "to the Memel" (or Niemen, now part of the dividing line between German and Russian Poland...
...Germany has many better ports. To Lithuania, however, it represents one-sixth of her industry, and it was the nation's only good outlet to the sea. With Memel gone, Lithuania now has only twelve miles of coastline. Furthermore, the Memel area controls the mouth of the Niemen River, on which traffic winds far into Poland...
...first Polish Cabinet Minister ever to set foot on Lithuania's soil. On July 1 normal railway service was restored between Poland and Lithuania after a lapse of 18 years during which these two nations, created after the World War, had remained quarreling. Shortly, river transport on the Niemen will open between the two countries. Last week Minister Beck alighted at Kaunas, the Lithuanian capital, paused there for half an hour of salutes, handshaking before he flew on to Riga, the Latvian capital. He was expected to make a formal visit to Kaunas soon, will try to draw Lithuania...