Word: frontierisms
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...correspondent of the Hungarian Pester Lloyd on a trip through Thrace reported last week that the frontier area was speckled with innumerable, brand-new bunkers. Minsker Zeitung, a German paper in Occupied Russia, featured stories about mighty new fortifications on the Aegean islands, including Crete. In Yugoslavia, the SS division Prinz Eugen was last week winding up a month's campaign in which it claimed to have recovered half of the Partisan-freed territory, including the capital, Bihac. The south of France was being additionally fortified...
...reply to a Soviet note conferring Russian citizenship on all former inhabitants of East Poland, the Polish Government in Exile last week denounced the Polish Soviet Treaty of July, 1941 as unilateral and intimated that it expects Poland's post-war eastern frontier to be restored as of September, 1939. "Tass," Russia's official news agency, answered by charging Premier Sikorski and his refugee cabinet with the "imperialistic" desire to hold against their will the four million Russians put under Polish rule by a peace treaty of 1921. The Soviet organ also leveled an accusation at the Poles for their...
...West. The British have produced what seems a just and reasonable solution in their proposal to apply the principle of self-determination to the disputed areas, plebiscites to be taken to ascertain their loyalties. But the fundamental solution of the problem can be secured not merely through frontier rectifications; Russia must be given security from aggression by an establishment of that collective security for which Maxim Litvinov waged a fruitless battle throughout the Thirties. In 1919, Clemenceau and Foch gave up their demands to German territory for an Anglo-American promise to institute an effective system for main-taining peace...
...seven months no U-boat has penetrated the U.S. Eastern Sea Frontier...
...intended to continue its formal relations with the Finns did not mean that the Allies would or could keep Russia out of Finland. Britain is at war with Finland. British and American troops, even if they were on the Continent by the time the Russians moved on the Finnish frontier, would hardly fight the Red Army in order to save Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim's Government...