Word: frontierisms
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...refuting the second charge, Professor Lord said, "The charge that the Poles have been conducting the war for wildly imperialistic aims is usually backed up by referring to the demands made by the Polish government from time to time for a frontier in the east far beyond the ethnographic boundaries of Poland. It is often said that the Poles are trying to swallow up millions of White Russians, Lithuanians, and other alien elements...
...demarcation line laid down in the armistice just concluded at Riga, which will presumably be the frontier adopted in the future peace treaty, it seems to me that the Poles have marked out a very reasonable and just frontier. It is true that this line is far east of the line recently proposed by Lord Curzon in the name of the British Government; but the Curzon line was never intended by anyone but the English to be a final boundary of Poland. It is true that the Riga line lies far east of the ethnographical limits of Poland as shown...
...frontier follows pretty closely the old German trench line of 1916, and this fact alone shows that it is an excellent strategic frontier. And Poland badly needs such a frontier for, after having been overrun seven or eight times in the last two centuries by Russian armies, she cannot feel safe without a good defensible line on the east...
...frontier does not take away from Russia any considerable population really Russian, nor any routes of communication Russia needs, nor any economic resources of real importance. It seems to me that such a frontier, if it is definitely established, will not injure any genuine Russian interest, while on the other hand, it will guarantee and safeguard vital interests of Poland...
...setting and describes its methods of work, besides indicating the nature of the questions it had to settle. The principal problems are then passed in review Belgium and Schleswig, Alsace-Lorraine, the Left Bank of the Rhine, the Saar Valley, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, Austria-Hungary, the Italian frontier and the states of the Balkans. The historical background is given in each case, but each problem is placed in the perspective of the negotiations at Paris and viewed primarily as one calling for practical solution in the treaties of peace. Particular attention is given to questions which involve the League...