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This folder contains a brief biographical sketch of Gov. Ballard , a newspaper article dealing with the disappearance of territorial funds prior to his appointment , and several unidentified typescripts which deal with an attempt to remove him from office for his neglect of Indian Affairs . As a result , the U.S. - Mexico divide has changed from a " border ( or a zone of transition ) to a boundary ( or a line of strict demarcation ) " As a backdrop for his analysis of Operation Gatekeeper , Nevins provides an interesting and useful history of the evolution of the U.S. - Mexico boundary , and by so doing argues that changes in it are inseparable from the development of the American nation-state " with its intermittent territorial expansion and the associated redefinition of the boundary and its accompanying social relations " ( p.15 ) . ' " " Germany made like promises of territorial gains to Hungary and to Poland in order to gain their cooperation or at least their acquiescence in the proposed dismemberment of Czechoslovakia . The self-governing Dominions grew by slow stages from small municipalities to the status of United Nation & In India and the Eastern colonies , territorial expansion was the slow increment of many decades .