WORLD COURT: The Czechs Win

A dispute between Czecho-Slovakia and Poland over the delimitation of the Teschen district, which was divided between the two countries by the Council of Ambassadors on July 28, 1920 after a projected plebiscite had been abandoned, was settled last week in favor of Czecho-Slovakia by the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, which concurred in the frontier described by the Ambassadors.

The principal cause of dissension between the two countries was the village and district of Jaworzyna, which commands Czecha-Slovakian plains and is of immense strategic value to that country. Both...

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