Word: yagi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petite Miss Margot Vagi. She let other people explain that, although Japanese, she was a child of six living in the Saar in 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles took the Saar provisionally from Germany, handed it over to the League of Nations as trustee until 1935. Though Miss Yagi scarcely remembers the Saar and now lives in New York, her plebiscite qualifications are impeccable. Anyone who was a Saarlander in 1919 may vote. Disenfranchised are Saarlanders of later vintage, even though they may have lived in the Saar uninterruptedly since 1920, may have heavy investments there...