Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When all the original signatories have ratified the pact, it will become operative among them. The nations of the British Commonwealth were dallying over ratification last week. Of the 15 original signatories, only four-Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, the U. S. have ratified, but all unquestionably will...
With $125,000,000 at stake on the interpretation of a single adjective, the Treaty of Trianon was profoundly studied, at The Hague last week, by jurists of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian mixed arbitral tribunal. The Treaty provides that the Republic of Czechoslovakia may confiscate, within its borders, all estates and properties belonging to persons whose families are covered by the $125,000,000 adjective...
...person could be found whose family had been royal but not regnant, he might shrewdly claim that his estates in Czechoslovakia ought not to have been confiscated. He could point triumphantly to a clause in the Treaty which says that, in case of dispute, the French text shall prevail. Such a person is the Archduke Friedrich, onetime Austro-Hungarian Feldmarschall, beloved as "Papa Fried-rich," and now resident in that hotbed of royalists, Budapest. It was "Papa Friedrich's" $125,000,000 estates (long since confiscated by Czechoslovakia) which were being wrangled over at The Hague...
Finally last week the decision of the Tribunal was made known. Czechoslovakia must "compensate" Archduke Friedrich, but the amount of compensation must be separately adjudged. Cheered by this foretaste of victory, the old Feldmar-schall's lawyers will battle...
...Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland...