Word: frontierisms
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East of Oslo the Germans were on the Swedish frontier, at points which flanked Sweden's prepared defense zones (see map). Farther north a German force last week reached the Swedish frontier on the railroad line from Trondheim that crosses the narrow part of Norway, and cuts into middle Sweden, turning southward toward Stockholm. From Copenhagen the Germans could pour an endless column of men into Sweden's flat and defenseless bottom. From new air bases in Denmark, Nazi bombers can more easily than ever lay eggs of death in Swedish cities...
This week all these threats were made more ominous by a new threat. Over the cities of southern and eastern Sweden and the districts behind the frontier of Norway dozens of snooping Nazi planes appeared. Anti-aircraft fire drove some of them off. Three or four were reported shot down and one fell in flames before a Swedish pursuit plane...
...still unviolated borders may be Sweden's weakness, and until last week this weakness was scarcely suspected outside of Sweden. Adolf Hitler may believe that he can get Sweden's iron and her arsenal, immobilize her Army and her Navy, without firing a shot or crossing a frontier uninvited...
STOCKHOLM, Saturday, April 27--French Foreign Legion troops from Africa were reported in frontier dispatches early today to have driven the Germans back "with heavy losses" to the north of Trondheim while Allied troops and planes battled Nazi motorized columns south of the strategic Norwegian seaport...
Ladies and non-Harvard men, as well as alumni, are invited to a meeting Friday night in the Metropolitan Opera House, where they will have the opportunity of listening to a symposium on the subject "Did Opportunity Vanish with the Frontier?" Slated to speak are Thomas W. Lamont '92, Dean Donham '98, Harlow Shapley, honorary '33, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, President Conant '14, Bruce C. Hopper '18, associate professor of Government, and Francis T. Spaulding '17, professor of Education...