Word: frontierisms
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...Frontier Incident. This editorial was strongly reminiscent of a similar one directed at Poland's rulers and printed 48 hours before the Red Army marched into Eastern Poland in September. Reports from the Finnish-Russian frontier the next day were timed to give it further significance...
Humpty France and Dumpty Germany continued sitting on their walls last week. Neither had a great fall and neither required more horses or men. The French did some digging in and dragged up some heavy artillery back of Perl at their supposedly "weak" corner by the Luxembourg frontier, where the right flank of a German assault would be protected by neutral territory. They sent about 1,000 men charging up a hill southwest of Pirmasens beside the Hornbach salient, but the Germans counterattacked and the French, after using planes to strafe their assailants for the first time in this...
This week the 18 German divisions that did not march over the eastern frontier of The Netherlands, and the Allied forces and British Fleet which did not pour across her southern and sea frontiers to meet them, were nevertheless still at their jump-off positions. All of which put The Netherlands in World War II's very toughest spot and made Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Queen of The Netherlands, the world's most worried Chief of State...
Last week, with Nazi troops and airplanes still massing just across the frontier, with the Nazi press barraging The Netherlands for not fighting harder against Great Britain's sea blockade, and with a possible Nazi threat about airplanes hanging over Queen Wilhelmina's head (see p. 17), The Netherlands High Command stepped on the starter of its defense engines, set them idling alertly though still strictly in neutral...
...last ten years dynamic Amanullah has played about the Lido and the French Riviera, although at home he has never been completely forgotten. Last week from India there came belated confirmation that Amanullah was still a potent force on India's Northwest Frontier. Two months ago, it was learned, 3,000 followers of Amanullah gathered in India, crossed the Afghan border near the Khyber Pass and started a march up to Kabul. King Mohammed Zahir Shah is accepted as a true-blue friend of the British, however, and when the British Raj in India threatened to come...