Word: frontierisms
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...Germans have about 1,000,000 men under arms continually, have called up another 500,000. Italy has mobilized several classes. Just to make the mobilization general, French Premier Edouard Daladier, under his new decree powers, had poured thousands of special reservists into frontier defenses...
Southward Bound. The traditionally neutral Swiss had a real week-end scare when alarming news came over the border that the Reich had been massing more than 200,000 troops around Lake Constance, to the north, and near the Swiss eastern frontier. Switzerland's border guard was doubled, border roads and bridges were mined and anti-aircraft guns were in position in Basel, Zurich and other big cities. To allay popular fears the Swiss Federal Council appealed for calm, issued a statement that "rumors concerning an immediate menace to Switzerland, whether direct or indirect, are without foundation...
...roads through the western mountain passes of Carpatho-Ukraine as soon as Hungary learned that the lid was off. Late the second day of the occupation, one frostbitten contingent reached the Polish border, where a Polish colonel ecstatically kissed the Hungarian commander while their troops embraced (see cut). Polish frontier guards welcomed the Hungarian soldiers as brothers and thawed them out in a guard station...
LONDON--Great Britain tonight called upon France, Soviet Russia and Poland to sign a four-power pact against Chancellor Adolf Hitler, whose German armies were reported moving toward the Lithuanian frontier, perhaps for a quick blow at Memel...
When the defeated Loyalist Catalan Army was pushed over the Spanish frontier into France, one of the greatest exoduses of modern times took place. France had on her hands her greatest refugee problem. The way that problem was handled had developed, by last week, into a world scandal...