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After luncheon? at which the Dictator appeared as a Polish general with sword and spurs??? both statesmen settled quietly to the business which had brought Marshal Pilsudski to Geneva; the Polish-Lithuanian frontier crisis (TIME, Dec. 12). Already M. Briand was in confidential possession of all the facts. On previous days he had several times received the Prime Minister of Lithuania, stocky, spiky-haired Professor Augustine Valdemaras. There had been a four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Briand's Miracle | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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