Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barrier at the Pyrenees. A little later Pfeifer issued a more diplomatic, but no less straightforward, formal statement: "I've been asked, what is the U.S. going to do about Spain? I think the order of the question is wrong. I don't mean to be harsh when I say Spain is a secondary problem to the U.S. The U.S., however, is a primary problem to Spain. The real question is this: 'What is Spain going to do about the United States?' Only the Spaniards themselves can answer that...
...nothing at all. We don't need the U.S. for military adventures. Our fleet does not need American ports. Our bombers do not need American aerodromes . . . But we are not so sure that the U.S. will not someday need us ... The Pyrenees [will always be] a solid barrier defended by men with guts and not by existentialists...
...State Department does not look with favor on this means of getting in touch with people on the other side of the barrier," he declared. "They have the idea that it will be construed as an invasion of sovereignty by the Russian government. Through some queer quirk of diplomatic reasoning, it is no invasion to shoot our words across on electromagnetic waves in the other, but it is not quite cricket to send printed material across. That's a little too unconventional. In some way it is rather raw. It is not in accordance with the niceties of diplomatic practice...
...looks something like Republic's Thunderjet. Probable maximum speed of the YAK-17: around 650 m.p.h. Jane's also reports a "research" plane of German design with a maximum speed of nearly 685 m.p.h. This is probably the plane which the Russians claim has passed the sonic barrier...
...like her expansionist tendencies (this, by some idiot logic, is said to lower the tension of the cold war). It will also, if the Iron, Curtain countries cooperate, stimulate trade between East and West which will help Europe get on its economic feet and help break down the barrier now existent between the two regions...