Word: frontierisms
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...highly vocal but locally infinitesimal minority of our people who call for aid to the Allies "short of war" gives an entirely wrong impression of real public sentiment hereabouts. We feel that such actions are not "short of war" but provocative of war itself. We are unconvinced that our frontier is in Europe...
...Book. Implicit in every move in Russia's foreign policy is the search for security. Joseph Stalin knows that Russia is weak internally, has the longest, most vulnerable frontier of any major power. Like Alexander I, he knows that Russia's fertile lands and docile people must always be a temptation to any master of Western Europe. The treaty with Germany was designed to give him time to prepare for the attack promised in Mein Kampf...
Over the Dnestr bridge and down from Galicia, the Red Army poured on schedule.It moved so fast that it soon caught up with retreating Rumanian soldiers. Rumanians who stopped to argue were shot. While King Carol ordered full mobilization to resist a Hungarian threat to his western frontier, Bucharest buzzed with rumors that the Red Army had overstepped its mark and was pouring into Old Rumania. Baby tanks crawled out of pregnant Red Army planes at Reni on the Danube, overcame the Rumanian garrison there before it could unstack its arms.* Presently, isolated units of the Rumanian Army began...
Small Pickings. In the South, a neglected Axis partner also visited France. Accompanied by Marshal Pietro Badoglio and a slew of Fascist bigwigs, Benito Mussolini slipped across the Franco-Italian frontier at Piccolo San Bernardo. His inspection was brief because few morsels had been dropped from the Nazi carving board for the eager Duce...
Mussolini had gained: 1) demilitarization of a 30-mile strip along the Franco-Italian frontier; 2) demilitarization of a strip 125 miles wide along the Libyan frontier; 3) demilitarization of the French Somaliland coast and full rights to the harbor of Djibouti and the Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway; 4) demilitarization for the duration of the war of the French naval bases at Toulon, Bizerte, Oran and Ajaccio. Regarding the surrender and demobilization of the French Army, the Italian Armistice conformed to the German. No mention was made of Nice, Savoy or Corsica, for which Italians have long clamored. So humiliating...