Word: frontierisms
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Fiction. The frontier incident was news to the Finnish Government. Border outposts were telephoned; the only noise reported on the frontier was that of Russian soldiers practicing trench-mortar firing and hand-grenade throwing. President of Finland's National Defense Council Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim toured the border that day and heard of no firing. A Finnish Government spokesman concluded that the entire incident was "completely untrue." At Helsinki the Government had no intention of ordering troops to retire from a frontier fairly jammed with Red Army contingents. To withdraw from back of their fortified line would...
...across southeastern Europe's poor railroad system. But barges and railroad cars are scarce in Rumania, and, moreover, many are owned by France and Great Britain. When the German delegation requested the Rumanians to commandeer these, Rumania refused. The Germans departed, but scarcely had they passed the frontier before Rumania had changed Governments. Premier Constantin Argetoianu resigned, and King Carol appointed 47-year-old George Tata-rescu to head a new Government...
...whether to expropriate the mines and let the output go to Germany, in which case the country may risk an Allied blockade, or whether to let the French buy the copper, in which case Führer Hitler might decide to create a diversion on the German-Yugoslav frontier...
...Like Frontier Guards." Berlin papers have for some time called the Polish Government "a farce." Last week the Moscow press picked up a New York Herald Tribune story saying that at Angers "one of the smallest States in the world-probably smaller than any except the State of Vatican City-is being established on an estate one mile long and half a mile wide in the Valley of the Loire." At this Pravda of Moscow jibed: "Two things particularly worry Sikorski: first the absence of a capital city; secondly, the absence of a national minority to oppress. Sikorski is hesitating...
...remains 100% French but that troops of the Polish Army, which General Sikorski is industriously recruiting in France and Britain among expatriate Poles, will be permitted to mount armed guard over the buildings leased to the Poles in Angers, and "it is expected they will feel and act like frontier guards...