Word: frontierisms
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...long, skillful campaign in Italy was now in sight. The only possible salvage still open to him was to withdraw his small army successfully to the fierce crags of the Dolomites, which form a better defense line than any he has held heretofore. There, on the frontier, he should be able to keep General Sir Harold Alexander from penetrating into Austria. But then Milan, Turin, Genoa, the whole Po Valley would have to be abandoned. And the war in Italy would be over...
Already Russian troops in Slovakia were descending from the north on Hungary. Another Russian army crossed the prewar frontier to enter the Hungarian plain from the southeast. The Nazis needed their savings from Greece to try to save Hungary...
...Spanish frontier waited Henri Bourbon, Comte de Paris, who would like to be Henri VI of France. Three months ago the dapper, 36-year-old Count moved his household from Madrid to Pamplona, near the French frontier, just in case the call should come...
Dmitri Christov, Grabowsky's successor as Minister of the Interior, did not even get into Turkey. When the Turks refused to let him cross the frontier, Ex-minister Christov killed himself...
...also on the Turkish frontier. A fortnight ago Pravda had lambasted Turkey for not jumping into the war. Now Russians were harping on an old familiar chord-internationalization of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The last time Turkish Premier Sükrü Saracoglu saw Moscow was in 1939, when Russia vainly tried to persuade him to close the Straits to other powers. Premier Saracoglu had not had a very pleasant visit in Moscow. Well might he wonder last week if he would not soon again be a guest in Spasso House...