Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western victory in Greece was winged with hope and also with foreboding; the State Department last week received reports that the Communists were about to start guerrilla warfare across the border in Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia...
...flying to London to discuss the "Tito Question" with the European Command of the State Department. Out of these talks should come a major decision on future American policy in Europe. Is the West content to maintain the status quo with Russia, or should it attempt to push the border back by encouraging unorthodoxy and nationalism among non-Russian communists? The U. S. is already committed to a $20,000,000 loan to Tito. The subject now is how much more help--if any--should be sent. In making up its mind, the London conference will have to consider heavy...
...Ever since the end of World War II the situation on the Franco-Swiss border has been touchy. Last week it was downright itchy. Over the long-distance telephone from the Swiss frontier station of Le Locle came the stationmaster's voice, cold and hollow. "French fleas," it said, "are infiltrating our border in the clothing of French railroad workers. It is a veritable invasion...
...five men left Cambridge at about midnight and were close to the Connecticut border at about 2:30 a.m. yesterday morning, they said. They flagged down a Greyhound bus and sent Dribben back to College to "get things ready," they said...
Despite the relative freedom of border crossings,* and even allowing a tolerance for the imponderables of red tape, most Canadians felt such incidents occurred all too frequently. Said the Ottawa Citizen: "United States immigration authorities have been applying a 'thought control' policy that in recent months has caused many Canadians inconvenience and humiliation...