Word: frontierisms
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...like James H. R. Cromwell can serve as American ambassador to Canada is clear proof of the cordial relations existing between these two neighbors. The adverse criticism which accompanied his appointment a short time ago has now been fully justified. For when Mr. Cromwell announced yesterday that America's frontier lies on the Rhine he was guilty of a breach of diplomatic good sense amply testifying to his unfitness...
...Herr Ribbentrop speeding toward the Italian frontier a wireless operator handed a communique just issued by the British Foreign Office. It read: "The British Government has decided to release 13 ships detained in recent days together with their cargoes of coal. Italian ships which have not already started their return journey with cargoes of coal will leave the ports in which they are at present in ballast (unladen) and no further Italian cargo steamers will be sent subsequently to those ports to load coal." Later came reports that British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Bastianini...
...Finnish war (see p. ig). In Florence students demonstrated in front of the British Consulate. In Rome six additional police guards were assigned to duty around the British Embassy. In London everyone sat tight but in Kenya Colony, which borders Italian-held Ethiopia, troops massed on the Ethiopian frontier. In Berlin Foreign Minister Ribbentrop took a special train for Rome. Then Britain exposed her hand...
Almost at the frontier Herr Ribbentrop's imposing delegation was suddenly reduced from 30 experts to twelve (not counting the Gestapo men who accompanied him). By the time he saluted his old friend Count Galeazzo Ciano on Rome's station platform Italian newspapers were once more busy declaring that Italy intended to remain "nonbelligerent" at all costs, that the Germans' visit was simply repaying the call Count Ciano made at Berlin last November...
These figures New York Timesman Eugen Kovacs gleaned at a station on the Rumanian-Soviet frontier. Cars loaded with maize, oil cakes, apples, eggs, butter, meat and lumber for Germany are systematically broken open and plundered while crossing Soviet territory. The Germans have to send German freight cars, though they need them badly at home, because if they send cars they captured from the Poles the Russians seize these and claim they captured them. Investigator Kovacs added that the Nazis dare not send tank cars over this line, are "afraid that the oil will be kept in Russia." So they...