Word: scheldt
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...pleasantry, for he plunged at once into crisp, forthright comment: "True, gentlemen, we are adjusting a frontier dispute with our good Belgian friends. ... If I may say so without offense, it is the product of the War mentality. Belgium is claiming the two provinces lying south of the Scheldt river on the ground, that it would give them the control of the Scheldt and free the port of Antwerp from the fear of any interference in case of war. They have suggested that we take a part of Germany in compensation, but the Dutch do not desire that...