Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with thousands of pilgrims preparing to travel to Jerusalem during the Holy Year of 1950, Israel and Jordan reached a boundary agreement after lengthy talks. There will still be a frontier in the middle of the city, but, presumably, Christian pilgrims will now be able to cross the dividing line freely and safely...
Smith proposed in effect that the U.S. send troops to occupy the prosperous 235-mile-long island. Strategically the most important piece of real estate still outside Western democracy's Pacific Ocean frontier, Formosa lies on the line between three potential sea-air bastions: Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines (see map). In the hands of an Asia-based enemy it would menace U.S. communication lines. But it is a gun which can point both ways. The U.S. could point it at Communist China...
...Germany Must Be Defended." Obviously, also, West Germany-as the Western world's most critical frontier against Communism-is worried about its ability to defend itself. To U.S. military leaders in Washington last week, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery gave his views on the matter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In Frankfurt, U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson was quick to announce that as far as the U.S. was concerned, Germany must not be permitted to maintain an army. Nevertheless, arguments for arming...
...week that Moscow had completed plans to overthrow Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. The coup d'etat, so the story ran, would start with a Moscow-engineered revolt in Belgrade. Tito would be liquidated. Satellite parachutists would descend on the Yugoslav capital; mechanized troops would roll across the frontier, presumably from Hungary, where by latest reports the Russians had five divisions (including two armored), were busily constructing airstrips. The rumors differed only on the timing of the coup: some said it was due this month, others next spring...
Last week, taking over the Polish army "as a Pole," Rokossovsky announced that one of its general orders would be to guard "the inviolability of the frontier [with Germany] on the Oder and Neisse." U.S. observers had several more or less plausible theories on why Rokossovsky had been sent to Warsaw: i) the Soviet army was going to be dramatically withdrawn from Germany, but it would now be able to dig in permanently in Poland, a short 50 miles from Berlin; 2) the previous heads of the Polish army were not reliable; 3) the way to prevent future Titos...