Word: frontierisms
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That the General Staff wanted war with Russia was indicated by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's list of military grievances, which included many alleged frontier violations. With the power now held by the Army in Germany, the suddenness with which war was declared showed that Germany could be satisfied with nothing less than destruction of Russia as a power...
...Gaullist leanings and dispatched him away from the border to Damascus. Mme. Collet took a room in a Damascus hotel in her husband's name and a junior officer was stationed there to answer phone calls until she and the General could make their getaway. At the frontier, guarded by quick-firing Senegalese, Mme. Collet stepped on the gas of her husband's car, hooted the horn and sped over. Impressed by the noise, the native corporal called the guard to attention and solemnly presented arms...
...onetime Ambassador to Belgium John Cudahy, in which, according to Cudahy, "he said the idea of a Western Hemisphere invasion was about as fantastic as an invasion of the moon. ... He said that he had never heard anybody in Germany say that the Mississippi River was a German frontier."* But this week Correspondent Cudahy returned to the U.S. with a sterner impression to give. Hitler, said Cudahy, "gave no impression that he wanted peace. . . . His attitude was a very unfriendly one-one of hostility toward me. He gave me the idea that he didn't like...
...Said Charles Augustus Lindbergh nine days before the Hitler interview was published: "If we say that out frontier lies on the Rhine, they can say theirs lies on the Mississippi...
Tariff. In Salt Lake City, a Utah Writers' Project researcher discovered that in 1862 frontier impresarios solved an old theatrical problem with the sign: Admission-adults, 35? babes in arms...