Word: frontierisms
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...some fight. But the garrison of Cannes was pounded into surrender by sea, air and land by D-plus-ten, and Allied forces advancing east went on toward Nice, only a few miles away. A plunge northeastward to Briangon brought the Seventh Army only five miles from the Italian frontier. Any German hope of evacuating large bodies of troops from southern France to northern Italy was virtually ended...
...commanded by Brigadier General Frederick B. Butler, kiting up secondary roads in the hills east of the Rhone valley, quickly reached Grenoble. They were now 150 miles from the coast, 230 miles from Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley's forces in the north, 200 miles from the German frontier. Three days later a party of correspondents, jeeping peacefully through Maquis-held territory, turned up on the Swiss frontier near Geneva, 200 miles from the beachhead...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop and Viacheslav Molotov had signed the Russian-German pact in Moscow. Twelve hours after its ratification on Aug. 31, Hitler gave the signal that sent the German armored divisions rumbling across the frontier against the Polish cavalry, the Luftwaffe against the all but defenseless Polish cities. Thus, on the fifth anniversary of World War II, the war was back where it started...
...earlier novels ( The Unvanquished, The Last Frontier, Conceived in Liberty, Citizen Tom Paine), Author Fast established a reputation for giving history a square deal. But readers whose knowledge of Reconstruction is confined to textbook tales of carpetbaggers and scalawags will be astounded by his new thesis. Anticipating disbelief, Fast declares in an afterword that the truth of his story is documented, but "the very memory was expunged" by powerful forces which "did not hold it to be a good thing for the American people to know...
Switzerland's new restrictions are presumably aimed at Nazis and Vichyites. Frontier officials will rule on the admittance of small fry only: women, children, ordinary soldiers. Entry qualifications of foreign big shots will be decided by the Federal Council itself...