Word: frontierisms
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Along the southern borders of Kwangsi and Yunnan Provinces 200,000 of the best troops China possesses fingered their rifles last week, awaiting a showdown in the game of pressure diplomacy across the frontier. In the last two months Japan's hell-for-leather Army mission had twice pushed negotiations with French Indo-China to a stalemate, had threateningly packed its bags, then backed down. But each time the Japanese came back with even stiffer demands. Last week they pushed hard for the most drastic terms...
...following two pages, TIME presents a map of the U. S.'s northwest frontier, and its name is Alaska. Its area is one-fifth as large as that of the 48 States. At its westernmost point the mainland of the territory is separated from the mainland of Asia only by the 62 miles of Bering Strait. Its outpost, Little Diomede Island in Bering Strait, is separated from Russian-owned Big Diomede by only a mile and a half of open water. Its westernmost Pacific Ocean island (Attu) is only 250 miles southeast of Russia's advance submarine base...
...vulnerable to invasion since navies were converted from sail to steam. It took the airplane to make it a strategic area from which an attack could be launched against the U. S. From the southern boundary of the narrow, water-laced Alaska panhandle which extends southward along the western frontier of Canada, Seattle is only 625 miles by air. From Juneau, considerably farther north and west, Pan American Airways runs regularly, twice a week, flies to Seattle in seven hours. The special importance of this fact is that this part of Alaska also lies along the route that any Oriental...
...sourdough subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways. Bossed by Alaska Veteran Joe Crosson, P.A.A.'s pilots operate in & out of Fairbanks, Whitehorse, Burwash Landing, Tanana Crossing, Ruby, Nome, McGrath, Ophir, Flat and Bethel. To help civil aeronautics and, in the long run, the defenses of the northwest frontier, the Civil Aeronautics Bureau is dotting Alaska with emergency fields, installing radio range stations for navigation at night and in bad weather...
...Polish balance sheet could be put together only from fragments of news that slipped across the tightly guarded frontier. It revealed a grisly record of brutality, pestilence and starvation...