Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strike a New Note Field is one minute rolling up laughs as a cockney cornet player ("a weedy little buffer . . . half a bully and half a cringer"), the next minute as a suave, Oxford-bred musician who performs on a ramshackle glockenspiel. As a poetry-spouting drunk, he garnishes a skit that contains the show's other drawing card, London's best-known bottle-hymn, I'm Going to Get Lit-Up When the Lights Go Up in London...
...Russia took Bessarabia back from Rumania (she had lost it in World War I) and renamed it the Moldavian Republic. Finally the Russian part of the Karelian Isthmus, plus a slice of Finland conquered in 1940, was set up as the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, touches foreign territory only in the Far East, where the Amur River divides the R.S.F.S.R. from Japanese-held Manchuria. Between Russia proper and China lies the Mongolian People's Republic, a some...
...world of potential enemies. Their main aim is Russia's development. For this, they need 25 years of peace. To this end, they want military security. As the Russians see it, in a world of potential enemies military security is guaranteeable only through territorial padding and balanced buffer states-not primarily through agreements. To the Russians, this seems particularly true so long as any agreement made with Britain or the U.S. might be modified or nullified by new governments...
...Army had not broken the entire line, but it had burst more than one seam. It was marching into a fragment of Poland, toward Rumania, toward the Baltic States. The border of Germany proper, at its nearest, still lay 340 miles across the buffer lands. But of pre-1939 Russia the Wehrmacht now held a slipping grasp on approximately 200,000 square miles; once it was master of 527,000 square miles of Russia...
Thus Russia once again served notice of her determination to block revival of the old cordon sanitaire idea of unfriendly buffer states between Russia and the west. What western statesmen had to worry about was whether Russia intended to make this impossible by setting up its own form of cordon "insanitaire" among the central and eastern European countries...