Word: frontierisms
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Inherent Weaknesses. There was a "Joint Hawaiian Coastal Frontier Defense Plan" and an "Air Agreement" by which Army & Navy would divide responsibilities, come the attack. "The inherent weakness . . . was the fact of their [the plans] not being operative in time to meet the attack. . . . Unity of command in Washington would have been a condition precedent to unity of command in Hawaii...
...Countess Edda Ciano, daughter of the late Benito Mussolini, widow of the Jate Count Galeazzo Ciano. From her Swiss refuge (a nerve hospital), she had watched the collapse of Fascism. Now she had to go home. In a closed car the Countess was driven by night across the Italian frontier, flown to Rome, then shipped to the Lipari Islands, once one of her father's favorite penitentiaries. Only thus could the authorities be sure they could save Edda from her father's fate. On her island she would be confined to an "apartment' until the "final disposition...
Forthwith the Bishop packed his saddlebags, got on his horse and headed for the frontier-traveling some 275,000 miles over wilderness trails in the southeast, often going hungry and sleeping on the ground...
...first nation to be attacked by the European dictatorships was feeling its oats. In Addis Ababa last week, the Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Department demanded sovereignty over the former Italian territory adjoining its frontier. That territory, Italian Somaliland, is now British-occupied- and Britain has its own ideas about the ownership of the strategic Red Sea littoral. The same day, the British Government made a formal presentation to Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah: a sleek new Rolls-Royce limousine. Territorial claims could be discussed later...
...Jean Trudel arrived at Quebec in 1645 he was just 16, a weaver by trade, and poor as Job. In his first ten years in New France, he worked for an apothecary, tilled the soil, fought Indians. When he had learned all the tricks necessary for survival in a frontier land, he was given the traditional 30 arpents of land (one arpent: approximately one and a half acres), and was on his own. He cleared away the forest, built a house, then married a Netherlander named Marguerite Thomas...