Word: frontierisms
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...Treaty of Westphalia, at the end of the Thirty Years' War, left the Holy Roman Empire minus 40,000 square miles (mostly to France and Sweden), gave it an indefensible frontier with France, broke it into 300 principalities...
...months ago, when Russia, like a clumsy cat, was trying to get her paws on the elusive Finns, Turkey's Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu talked tough (TIME, Feb. 26). Turkish Defense Minister General Naci Tinaz was busy building military roads to the Russian frontier. Last week General Tinaz resigned "for reasons of health." Day earlier President Ismet Inönü and Foreign Minister Saracoglu had a 90-minute talk with the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, who was about to go to London for a conference. What they told him: 1) "No danger of war exists...
Last week one of the camps of Spanish refugee volunteers in France near the Spanish frontier heard that the frontier was closed, that there was street fighting in northern Spain between Falangists and Requetés. That night three of the refugees slipped across the frontier with two submachine guns and one machine gun. Next day the entire Spanish battalion was in a ferment and the volunteers sat out on the beach singing civil-war songs and talking of mass desertion. The French prudently transferred the entire camp to Valbonne, north of Lyon...
Herr Hitler, as he proved in his seizures of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, has a great knack of doing his grabbing where the western powers cannot get hold of him. The Axis still protects his southern frontier, Russia his eastern frontier. The Westwall guards his western frontier and the fall of Finland has made him safe from attack in the north. His vulnerable quarter is the southeast...
...denied, but officially confirmed by the Japanese War Office, was a subsequent skirmish on half-Russian, half-Japanese Sakhalin Island. Soviet frontier guards were said to have crossed the border and fired on a band of Japanese policemen. The incident developed into a dogfight in which, the Japanese claimed, "a dozen" Russians and "several" Japanese were wounded...