Word: frontierisms
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Hitler kept his eye on his homeland. In February 1938, he sent for Chancellor Schuschnigg, ranted and demanded. Then, on March 12 at 5:40 in the morning, German troops crossed the frontier, drove without opposition on Vienna. A bemused Britain and a sick France chose to see nothing fatal in the rape...
Most important of all, Sinkiang presents new statesmen in China with the problem their predecessors faced with signal lack of success for 150 years-the problem of land frontiers. China's eastern and southern frontiers are sea and mountain; but in the north and west China shares the longest land frontier in the world with Russia. Corrupt and ignorant statesmen of the Manchu dynasty, brutal provincial war lords understood nothing of the art of world politics; Russo-Chinese relations were traditionally...
...will bridge the river and the Pripet Marshes. The Wehrmacht v.ill then fall back upon its second line, running through the fortresses of Odessa, Zhitomir, Pinsk, Minsk and Riga. If this falls too, the German Army will still have a third line of defense, behind Russia's old frontier. But with each retreat, the Wehrmacht will be weaker, its defense lines less formidable...
...vulnerable will be the Balkans, wrhere the heavy thud of approaching Russian sapogi (boots) might well set off explosive anti-German sentiment. The German command knows well the dangers implicit in these airline distances from the Eastern front: to the Ploesti oil fields, 530 miles; to the old Polish frontier, 95 miles; to Germany proper, 475 miles...
...Gilberts. Marines sneaked into Nanumea, which lies only 500 miles southwest of Japan's Gilbert Islands bases. Their landing was unopposed, put U.S. troops close in under the flank of Japan's long eastern sea frontier...