Word: thrace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book "All in a Life-time" was one of the outstanding biographies of last season, has sailed for Greece on an important unofficial diplomatic mission. He is to take the active chairmanship of the commission under the League of Nations for the settlement of refugees from Anatolia in Western Thrace and Macedonia. 600,000 of these exiles are now given shelter by the Greek government which has deeded more than a million acres of vacant lands to their use. The Greeks have undertaken to raise among themselves 1,000,000 Pounds and the British have made a temporary loan...
...where he is likely to impress Americans to the amount of $1,170,000, which is to be used not for himself, nor for Norway, but for those Greeks whom the fortunes of war have driven from Asia Minor to Thrace...
...London, Paris, Rome that a coup d'état had been effected in Greece by a group of revolutionaries, aiming to set up a Republic. For two days the press of the world referred to activities of General Pangalos (former Commander-in-Chief of the Greek Army in Thrace) and Admiral Hadjkyriakos, who were reported to be the strong men mysteriously directing the movement...
...same time, however, the Allies promised Bulgaria an outlet on the Aegean; it being recognized that such an outlet was an economic necessity. In 1921 the Allies made Bulgaria an offer of an enclave on the Aegean coast; this was unacceptable to her without a corridor through Western Thrace to the Bulgarian border. Last week, Professor Zankov, new Bulgarian Premier, accused the Powers of bad faith, thus: "Bulgaria made many promises in the Treaty of Neuilly (November, 1919) and has fulfilled them all. The Powers made only one concrete promise, and the fulfillment of that is further off than ever...
...Turkey to receive Karagach (junction suburb of Adrianople, across the river Maritza) and the railway line from Luli Gurgas, on the Bulgarian Frontier, to Karagach. This means shifting the Turko-Greek boundary in Thrace further west...