Word: frontierisms
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First, as to why we have so much hot dope on Russia inside the magazine: The reason for this is that ten days ago we called out one of our special correspondents in Germany and got him safely across the frontier into neutral country, from which he could send us the uncensored truth. The day after he left Germany he telephoned that he had tremendous news but that he could not jeopardize his position by spilling it to us at that time over the wire. But as soon as the new war broke out he called us again...
...U.S.S.R. bars foreign diplomats from frontier zones...
...Hungarian spokesmen declared that Hungary would take only normal military precautions in times of nearby war, such as the strengthening of frontier guards...
First Day. He knew that the British were mounting an attack. Though the British had used great caution, Axis reconnaissance had for seven days spotted perhaps two divisions of Indian infantry, scattered thinly and on foot, making its blistering way toward the frontier from Matrúh, 150 miles inside Egypt. General Rommel knew that so much infantry does not move so far so fast in the face of such hardships unless a real attack is contemplated...
While the tanks were tangled, Indian infantry stormed Hellfire. These wiry veterans of crag warfare on India's North-West Frontier sneaked into defiles and crevasses as obscurely as rock-dwelling lizards. They stormed post after post, took many, and by night felt confident of taking the rest...