Word: riga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Council of the Allied Powers, suggested a mutually satisfactory line of demarcation, resolving as best it could the impossible ethnographic interming-lings left over after 1,000 years of strife. Neither side would listen. In the end the Poles were able to dictate a peace at Riga in 1921, establishing an eastern frontier which lasted until 1939 and the fourth partition of Poland...
Winter Prospects. If the Dnieper Line does not crumble this week or next, it may crumble in the winter, when ice will bridge the river and the Pripet Marshes. The Wehrmacht v.ill then fall back upon its second line, running through the fortresses of Odessa, Zhitomir, Pinsk, Minsk and Riga. If this falls too, the German Army will still have a third line of defense, behind Russia's old frontier. But with each retreat, the Wehrmacht will be weaker, its defense lines less formidable...
...actual fighting or violent controversy as did the definition of Poland's boundaries. Then it was the Russians who were weak and the Poles, who disregarding the ethnologically just "Curzon Line" drawn at the peace conference, swept into Russia's easternmost provinces and incorporated them by the treaty of Riga in 1921. It is this Treaty which Stalin denounced after Sikorski's rejection of the Polish Soviet Treaty of 1939, which reestablished the border at the Bug River...
...ever been able to pump more wordy gas into a factual vacuum than Doktor Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy, one may at least try to create an aristocracy...
...Germans dare to ask why Hitler suddenly discovered that Stalin and Molotov were criminals, whereas only two years before we had signed a friendship pact with Russia. These Germans also remark that German propaganda should make no mention of the cruel bloodshed at LwÓw, Dubno, Vilna and Riga, maintaining that Germany is responsible-having given these territories ... to Russia. These regrettable Germans, with their uncrushable ideals of impartiality, unwittingly become solicitous for Churchill and we must deal energetically with them...