Word: borders
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...America. If they could learn, before leaving their old homes, whether or not they would be admitted by our immigration authorities, most of this trouble might be easily avoided. Indeed, one method has already been successfully adopted in a reciprocal agreement with Canada, where aliens desiring to cross the border may apply at United States immigration offices and receive a final decision before undertaking to break up their homes. Some such plan would be equally effective in the countries of Europe...
...interests of both nations. The Mexicans now are almost for the first time learning to govern themselves; they are recovering from the paternalism of Diaz. The recognition of their government by the United States would have a wholesome influence upon their internal affairs. The governors of three of our border states--Texas, Arizona and New Mexico--haxe expressed their faith in the stability and sincerity of Mexico. It is to be hoped the federal government will soon be able to speak in the same way for the nation as a whole...
...first time in eight years the President of Mexico has visited the United States in an official capacity. For the first time in eight years, a passenger train has crossed the Border, so long zealously guarded by our armed forces. It is to be hoped that this auspicious event is the beginning of a new era in the history of the two countries, one of increased friendship and mutual respect...
...graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1909 and assigned to the cavalry. From 1909 until 1912 he saw service on the Mexican Border and on the Navaho Indian Reservation. In 1912 he was selected for a year's instruction at the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley. From then until 1917 Major Goetz was on foreign service, part of the time acting as aide to Brigadier General C.C. Edwards. During the war Major Goetz was a temporary colonel in charge of a replacement brigade at Camp Jackson...
Since its organization, about 90 percent of its membership has been composed of college men, many of the more prominent athletes having been numbered on its rolls. After its Mexican Border service, foreseeing that this country must become involved in the World War practically every enlisted man in the Squadron entered a training camp and was commissioned in one of the various branches of the service. The best commentary on the character of its personnel is that out of a total of about 1200 ex-members, over 850 served as commissioned officers in the United States Army or Navy during...