Word: frontierisms
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Teddy is back in New York this week for his first visit home since early in 1942-and perhaps you would be interested in some of the things he has been telling me about his personal experiences on his journey to civilization's oldest and newest frontier...
That night a transport plane noted a blazing fire high in the frontier mountains. Next morning General Wingate's air officer, Colonel Philip Cochran, U.S.A.A.F., sent out search planes which spotted burned-out wreckage on the mountainside. Last week ground searchers reached the spot and reported that all the occupants of the plane, including Orde Charles Wingate, one of the military geniuses of World War II, were dead...
...Burma frontier has almost never before known such weather at this season of the year. With the monsoon not due for at least a month, high winds and tropical downpours, some of them lasting five days at a time, have pelted the area repeatedly in recent weeks. *Strikingly beautiful Mrs. Wingate, reported to be expecting a child shortly, first saw Wingate at the rail of a liner when she was 15 and he 30, introduced herself by saying, "You're the man I'm going to marry." Answered Wingate: "You are right. When?" Two years later she wrote...
Said Molotov, in part: "Beginnings have been made in the full re-establishment of the Soviet frontier as fixed in 1940 in accordance with the agreement between Soviet Russia and Rumania [and] treacherously violated by the Rumanian Government, in alliance with Hitlerite Germany. . . . The Supreme Command of the Red Army has given the order to advancing Soviet troops to pursue the enemy until his final rout and capitulation...
...Prut was Czarist Russia's boundary with Rumania. In 1918 Rumania received Bessarabia as a reward for joining the Allies, pushed the frontier back to the Dniester, where it remained until...