Word: frontierisms
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Popular idea of the duties of U. S. functionaries in Canada has been that they carry on glacier-slow discussions of the St. Lawrence Seaway and, at the opening of each new international bridge, call attention to the 3,897 miles of U. S. Canadian frontier that have no fortifications whatsoever. New U. S.-Canadian relations involve staggering possibilities: that the seat of the British Empire might be moved to Ottawa if Britain should be overrun, that the British fleet might be forced to seek bases in Canadian ports, that Nazi Germany might claim Canada if she won-in which...
...thousand more noncommissioned officers were called to their regiments, soldiers in full equipment marched through border towns, railroad stations clanged with freight cars moving artillery and munitions northwest toward the frontier of France. At week's end Editor Giovanni Ansaldo of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's Leghorn newspaper Il Telegrafo broadcast word to the troops that the quiet mobilization that had been going on for several weeks was mobilization for war. As to Italy's reasons for going to war, Editor Ansaldo, in addition to those of territorial aggrandizement, put forth a unique reason. "How could...
...around the Mediterranean. In Malta, Enrico Mizzi, Nationalist leader of the Council of Government, and a Catholic Actionist named Herbert Ganado were interned. In Cairo and Alexandria 700 fifth-columnist suspects were clapped into internment camps. An evacuation caravan took civilians away from Menton on the French-Italian frontier, prepared to evacuate Monte Carlo next...
...factor in the next war will be the motor. . . . Now, just as an airplane covers in an hour a distance which could be covered 25 years ago only by 20 days of marching, just so a mechanized army passing the frontier . . . can penetrate 40 leagues in the enemy country if it overcomes the obstacles it finds...
...seems likely that the German Army, preceded by its powerful tanks, will roll in through Holland to Belgium where it is ardently to be hoped that the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liege will . . . stop them. If not, it would move toward our northern frontier, 350 kilometers wide...