George Nathaniel Curzon Biography

Establishes a permanent Kensington headquarters for British geographical work.

Oversees the Society's move into Lowther Lodge.

The Supreme Council accepts a statute whose Galician demarcation joins the proposed Polish eastern line to the Czechoslovak frontier in the Carpathians.

The Allied powers recognize Polish sovereignty west of a provisional eastern line while expressly reserving Poland's possible rights to territories farther east.

Curzon sends Soviet Foreign Commissar Chicherin the British armistice proposal that gives the provisional Allied boundary its enduring name.

Curzon's proposal extends the earlier provisional line south through Galicia, west of Rawa Ruska and east of Przemysl, to the Carpathians.

Curzon's note proposes that Polish forces withdraw to the provisional eastern line established by the Peace Conference.

The British armistice proposal calls for Soviet forces to remain fifty kilometres east of the proposed line outside Eastern Galicia.

The Polish-Soviet preliminary peace agreement adopts a frontier substantially east of the Curzon proposal, reducing its immediate role as a settlement line.

The Treaty of Riga confirms a Polish-Soviet frontier well east of the Curzon Line, leaving the British proposal unused as the interwar boundary.