Word: frontierisms
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...before the deadline, thousands of Jews were dragged out, and shipped off to the Polish border. Soon some 20,000 including children wrenched from schools and orphanages, were herded at the frontier. Thousands were forced over the German line. Many preferred to stay in the open one-mile strip between the frontiers but 12,000 made their way into Poland. The Polish Government, threatening retaliation, made representations to Berlin. When negotiations were arranged the deportations halted. Jews on the German side were returned to their homes. Those already in Poland will have to pay their own way back, Nazi officials...
KOMAROM, Czech-Hungarian Frontier--Regent Nicholas de Horthy of Hungary, riding a prancing steed, today led a column of Hungarian cavalry across the Danube and into this medieval town where he formally claimed 4,787 square miles of territory surrendered by Czechoslovakia...
BERLIN--The German Gestape, secret police, announced tonight that about 10,000 Polish Jews, dumped across the Frontier into Poland before the two countries agreed to a trace in their passport controversy, must find their own means of returning to their homes and families...
...borrowed transmitter and some receiving sets lent by Marconi Co. in 1935 made possible the first experiment in taking radio to the ryot. A.I.R. boldly chose for the experiment the turbulent Northwest Frontier, set up community sets, trumpeting Government propaganda. The villagers objected passionately, pegged rocks at the loudspeakers. That experiment was abandoned...
...make a State visit to King George. Last week Rumania and Yugoslavia were exerting pressure on their neighbor Hungary to keep her from grabbing such a great slice of Slovakia & Ruthenia as would pinch off the whole eastern end of Czechoslovakia. This would give Hungary and Poland a common frontier, would mean that Rumania and Czechoslovakia would no longer be adjoining States...