Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German birth, resident of the U. S. and possessor of his first citizenship papers, decided to import his wife and five children from Germany. They came. The five offspring were admitted as Germans. The mother was denied entrance because she had been born aboard a Dutch ship in the port of Antwerp, and the Dutch quota for 1923-1924 was exhausted. Perforce the mother retired to troubled Europe. But she left the children in this country, in the motherless care of a father, because at some future time when she returns to America-in a Dutch quota-there might...
...Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, accompanied by his private secretary, M. Miachalopoulis, left Paris for Marseilles, and subsequently sailed from that port to Athens. He declined to make any comment upon his return to Greece, or upon his reasons for reversing his decision not to return...
Later the armored cruiser Rochester, flagship of the U. S. special service squadron in Central and South American waters, was sent to the port of Amapala, Honduras, under command of Rear Admiral Dayton. The measure was taken as a precautionary measure against harm to American life or destruction of American property...
Brand Whitlock, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium during the War, was invited to preside over a neutral commission which is to disentangle the Memel controversy. Memel, a port on the Baltic Sea, was transferred to the Allied and Associated Powers by the Treaty of Versailles and subsequently awarded to Lithuania (after Lithuania had taken it). The Lithuanian Government, however, refused to ratify the agreement of a convention framed to regulate the future of the seaport. Negotiation with the Council of Ambassadors failed and the question was finally referred to the League...
...Portuguese in 1662; came under British flag as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza when she married King Charles II in 1662; in 1684 British abandoned it to the Moors on account of the expense it involved; in 1905 Kaiser Wilhelm II paid a visit to the port of Tangier on board the Imperial Yacht Hohensollern, remained six hours and said enough to provoke an international crisis; 1906 Conference of Algeciras settled the whole Moroccan question and placed Tangier under temporary international control; 1911 Germany sent the warship Panther to Agadir and another international crisis was occasioned...