Word: frontierisms
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Navy airhawks were pleased with their new station, not only because it is within easy range of the U. S.'s maritime frontier, the Caribbean, but because it gives the Navy another training field for pilots. Rushed to completion to take some of the pressure off the big training base at Pensacola, Fla., Jacksonville will double the Navy's output of aviators. The Navy to day has only a few more than 3,000 pilots, a training capacity (at Pensacola) of 150 a month. Its goal of planes is 15,000, which will require 18,000 pilots...
Last summer the Russians annexed a piece of Rumania, thereby advancing their frontier from the Dniester to the Pruth River, thereby putting one more river barrier in front of an invader from this direction...
...Langson, in violation of the agreement, Japanese forces crossed the Chinese frontier and attacked the garrison. Ordered to withhold fire, the 6,000 French Foreign Legionnaires and native troops had permitted themselves to be surrounded by the Japanese, who then attacked from all sides. One thousand were killed or wounded, 2,000, including a brigadier general, were taken prisoner and 3,000 escaped by fleeing unarmed into the jungle. Pro-Japanese guerrilla bands were reported to have recaptured 30 Frenchmen and killed them slowly. "The Japanese herded us together like cattle," reported an escaped Legionnaire. "Some had cover but most...
With Hungary largely under German domination Hitler might be able to launch an attack on the Ukraine from the new Hungarian frontier which lies in the passes of the Carpathians. From there his Army would have a downhill run to the plains. With a friendly totalitarian government in Rumania he might be able to launch his attack on the plains themselves...
Stalin's Problem. Soviet Russia has two objectives in the Balkans. One is to protect herself from German invasion. If she could advance her frontier from the Pruth to the summit of the Carpathians she could deprive Germany of one jumping-off place into the Ukraine. Since the danger would remain of this line being outflanked by a German advance southeastward from Poland, the risk of war with Germany in order to seize the Carpathians is probably not worth it in Joseph Stalin's calculating mind...