Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When Thailand pressed its claims against Indo-China, Vichy instructed Hanoï to resist. Border incidents broke out, and by last week they had become pretty intense. There were small bombings and counter-bombings. The fighting was by no means a war, but it was an episode which somehow epitomized the tragic complications of the year of grace 1940. A no-account strip of precipitous jungle on the Mekong River had become a matter of world politics involving not only Thailand and France, but the Axis and Britain-and even the U. S., which may some day have to defend...
...them (so far counted), including 1,626 officers. It was not a Roman victory, it was another shocking Roman rout, a fierce continuation of last fortnight's Battle of the Marmarica in which, after slicing through Capuzzo (in the line of forts guarding Libya's eastern border), savage little squadrons of fast British tanks and Bren gun-carriers whipped around the port of Bardia, outflanking it as they had outflanked Sidi Barrani and Salum...
...British had no major force to spare for a strong thrust at the 100,000 Italians cut off from home in Ethiopia, but at Gallabat, Kassala and down in Italian Somaliland they delivered jabs and jolts. In a swift raid they seized El Wak, across Kenya's east border, took 120 prisoners, seized or burned important Italian supplies...
...British had any feeling of complacency last week it was not because of Frank Owen, a tall, rangy, bushy-haired newspaperman, who was born on the border of Wales 35 years ago and calls himself Sudeten Welsh. Nine years ago, after building himself into a Laborite problem child in the House of Commons, he lost his seat in a Tory landslide, took a crack at foreign corresponding, wound up on the London Evening Standard of Lord Beaverbrook, whom he looks on as "a promising lad from the Dominions." This month the passion for work which keeps Editor Owen...
Three weeks ago many a U. S. businessman and soldier of fortune donned boots and sombrero, took his place on the Mexican border, looked over the Rio Grande into a new land of free enterprise. To such as he, Manuel Avila Camacho looked like a relief from the New Deal. If the New Deal had stifled such men's pioneer spirit, a Mexican President might well bring it back. Scarcely had the inaugural words "private initiative" died on his lips when Avila Camacho went down under a deluge of U. S. pioneers. No frontiersman himself, Mexico...