Frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations. Frontiers - Page 7by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1908 - 58 pagesFull view - About this book
| Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of Zetland - 1908 - 466 pages
...CHAPTER XVII. THB MAKING OF THE NORTH-EAST FRONTIER. PART L: OR1AT BRITAIN AND CHINA. " FRONTIERS are the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern...issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations;" * and of all the frontiers which have claimed the attention of British statesmen, none are comparable... | |
| Isaiah Bowman - 1921 - 648 pages
...dispute is a possible cause of war, and boundary disputes grow out of ignorance as well as ambition. "Frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which hang...the modern issues of war or peace, of life or death for nations." The unsettled boundaries of the Latin-American nations are therefore matters of general... | |
| Isaiah Bowman - 1928 - 832 pages
...overlooked that often they have sprung from disputed boundary lines or zones. "Frontiers are indeed a razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace, of life or death for nations." After the close of the World War new states were formed and old states altered. Eight... | |
| 1915 - 484 pages
...extraordinary fascination for me is the north-west frontier. Lord Curzon once said that "frontiers are the razor's edge, on which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace, of life and death of nations "; and certainly the issues of war or peace have hung in the balance often enough... | |
| William Gordon East - 1965 - 224 pages
...town of Birmingham, the fortunes of which had yet to be made. 97 CHAPTER VH Frontiers and Boundaries Frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which hang...issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations. LORD CUHZON, Frontiers (1907) WHATEVER else it may be, a politically organised territory or state is... | |
| American Society of International Law. Annual Meeting - 1927 - 202 pages
...the test of international relations. In a famous lecture in Oxford, Lord Curzon once pointed out that "frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of peace and war, of life or death between nations." We now see efforts all over the world to reform frontiers,... | |
| E. A. Boateng - 1978 - 316 pages
...crossed. Herein lies the justification for Lord Curzon's oft-quoted observation that 'frontiers form a razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace, of life or death for nations'.2 The terms boundaries andfrontiers are often used as though they were synonymous and... | |
| Yong Leng Lee - 1982 - 216 pages
...draftsman, Mr. Poon Puay Kee, for drawing the maps. Lee Yong Leng Boundaries and Boundary Disputes Frontiers are indeed the razor's edge on which hang...the modern issues of war or peace, of life or death for nations. (Lord Curzon, 1908) The straight-line boundary is really quite a new phenomenon in Southeast... | |
| Sidney R. Waldron, Naima Ali Hasci - 1995 - 104 pages
...anticipated the plight of Somali pastoralists in the Ogaden in his poignant statement about frontiers being 'the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace, of death or life to nations' (quoted in Asiwaju 1993 p. 2). For the last 25 years, Somalia has questioned... | |
| Y. Gradus, Harvey Lithwick - 1996 - 340 pages
...groups, tribes, and even families. The justification was political and military, in Lord Curzon's words: "Frontiers are, indeed, the razor's edge on which...issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations" (1907, quoted in Barkindo 1993). In some ways, a most unhappy marriage, especially for indigenous peoples,... | |
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