Word: frontierisms
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...against Russia, they are, in effect, fighting each other. Both countries know that the one which helps Germany the most will be rewarded with Transylvania. While Rumanian radio stations shout that Hungary is holding back in Russia in order to attack Rumania later, Hungarian troops are fortifying the Rumanian frontier...
...Last week's chief affair of state was the establishment of diplomatic relations with Vichyfrance. By the country from whom Italy once expected to receive Nice, Corsica and Tunis, she was given only the frontier town of Menton, where the zone of occupation ends at a row of pavilion lavatories...
Just as carefully they refrained from confirming or denying one of the most significant reports since the Russian counteroffensive began: that Russian forces have flanked the central German armies around Smolensk and have pushed into White Russia, a scant 70 to 85 miles from the old Polish frontier...
Setbacks on two fronts jolted the Axis Sunday--in Russia, where Red Army shock troops stormed westward through crumbling German lines toward the old Polish frontier, and in the southeastern Mediterranean zone, where British forces struck heavily by land...
...Tokyo radio said--"Singapore City reverted to its role of frontier down in the final phase of the Malayan campaign. Its streets ran with blood and its tropical calm was shattered by the travelling roar of rifle, machine gun and artillery fire as Japanese forces ran the British defenders out of the city in desperate street fighting...