Word: postbellum
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...deported. As the case of the seventy-one year old peasant who was sent back to Europe, although his son and daughter, amply able to care for him, were waiting just outside the steel gates. Then there was the twelve year old boy of German parentage, who, by the postbellum changes of boundary-lines, was adjudged to have been born in Jugo-Slavia, and so of that nationality. His mother and father had lived in this country throughout the war, and had sent for their son at the first opportunity. But the Jugo-Slav quota was full...