Word: frontierisms
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...dress demotion. His record, his hold on his country's affection and, chiefly, his merit would not permit it. He was clearly kicked, but not very far, downstairs. There was important thinking to be done in India. If the Germans defeated the Russians, Germany would have a common frontier with India. This threat called for a Wavell, because it now appeared that Sir Archibald's special talent is what the British Army calls "Q," staff planning, rather than "O," operations...
...burst of shooting along the amorphous border. Soon a grown-up battle was raging, with machine guns and artillery backing up the rifle fire, with Peruvian warplanes roaring overhead. Quito said Peruvian bombers had destroyed the military barracks and a church in the Ecuadorian town of Chacras, that frontier forces had attacked at other points on the frontier. Lima claimed that Ecuadorian troops had tried to cross into Peruvian territory, had been driven back. After two days the fighting died down...
...Steel columns shot out in the familiar pincers operation, only this time they moved far deeper and far wider than usual. Early this week the steel jaws bit together behind Minsk, and within the maw the Germans claimed to have two great armies; not only the Minsk divisions, but frontier divisions as well...
Below the Pripet Marshes, the offensive went more slowly, because before it could roll, the formidable frontier fortress of Przemysl had to be stormed. And near Luck the Russians offered up a Gargantuan tank battle...
...Youth Congress in Philadelphia as a red-hot peace rally. The Worker even referred to elegant, wing-collared, Groton-schooled Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles as "Mr." There were also many chest-throwing stories of Russian Army prowess written in old-fashioned dime-novel style. Typical sample: "Soviet frontier guards, who sustained the first sudden attack of the perfidious fascist enemy, fought like lions and covered themselves with immortal glory. . . ." But the Worker did not in so many words predict a Soviet victory...