Word: frontierisms
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South Dakota's steel-grey new Governor Bushfield warned Franklin Roosevelt that the U. S. frontier is not in France, that the West hates...
...neutral zone or to declaring a general amnesty, decided to open the French border not only to the fleeing army but to as many civilians as cared to enter. Probably what helped France make up her mind was the thought of what might have happened had the frontier been kept sealed. The Loyalist Army might well have decided to make a suicidal last stand on the border. Both a massacre and an international incident were possible...
...Popolo d'ltalia said: "This is one of the most colossal delusions into which France has ever fallen. Because, if despite the efforts of the totalitarian states to insure a just peace, war should break out, before the U. S. could say 'Oh!' the French frontier would be smashed to bits...
Generalissimo Franco soon responded to the French hints of possible friendship. The French have long dreaded the idea of having the Italian legionnaires fighting with the Rebels at the French frontier. No less pleasing has been the thought that the Rebels' friends have been constructing fortifications on the French-Spanish frontier. Last week the Generalissimo informed France that Italian troops would not be allowed to operate in the frontier sector, and at the same time withdrew an Italian militia brigade from the Catalonian shambles. He also invited a French military mission to come and see for itself that...
...Panamanian response to the Italian press's declaration that Italy's frontier is Panama was a messy "frontier" incident. An Italian admiral commanding two goodwill cruising cruisers and the Italian Minister to Panama motored out of Panama City to make an official call on Panama's President. Caught with their windows down, they were soon so covered with refuse heaved at them by angry bystanders that their call had to be postponed while they drove back to the flagship for a change of uniforms...