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Word: plebiscitiana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local vote. From a legal standpoint the League seemed duty-bound to give each part of the Saar what each part of the Saar wanted; but the League urge to make some sort of a clean sweep decision on the whole Saar was almost irresistible. So absorbed in plebiscitiana was Radcliffe College's famed Miss Sarah Wambaugh, super-active U. S. member of the Plebiscite Commission, that she announced, "The most important result is clear-not whether the territory will go to one country or the other country-but the successful co-operative effort of an impartial and scientific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: German Is the Saar! | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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