Word: frontierisms
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...miles. However, according to official London sources this week, the Plan was to have been carried out over a period of "about six months." The Demands insisted that by October 1-precisely eight days after the last meeting at Godesberg -all Czechoslovak armed forces, gendarmerie, police, customs officials and frontier guards be withdrawn from the areas which Dictator Hitler red-inked. While neither German nor Czechoslovak armed forces would be permitted in plebiscite areas while the voting took place on or before November 25, according to the Demands, the ballot would be restricted to people who lived in these areas...
Meanwhile, Sudetens who had fled to Germany and organized a Freikorps ("Free Corps") appeared in Mufti, wearing Freikorps armbands and supplied with light German weapons of every sort, including hand grenades and machine guns, to wage localized warfare upon Czechoslovak towns and customs houses all along the Sudeten frontier. At As, the birthplace of No. 1 Sudeten Nazi Konrad Henlein, Czech gendarmes who fortnight ago described themselves as "Sons of Death'' were driven out with heavy casualties. The town of As is the fingernail of a tiny finger of Czechoslovakia extending 18 miles into Germany, and Sudetens...
While it was sending regiments to the frontier a few weeks ago, the French Government also found time to send to Harvard a scholar described by Joseph L. Walsh, Professor of Mathematics, as one of the greatest mathematicians ever to lecture here...
...like Dr. Bock's newly announced experiment in "normal" analysis, the handful of men studying in these fledgling learning outlets have the responsibility of pioneers. The frontier, a difficult and uncharted one in both cases, is theirs to push back. Years hence the work they do now will become only too evident. But for the present, the important fact is that the work has been commenced. The idealistic aspiration of the two founders have for the first time taken concrete form. It will, however, be the newspapers of the future and the public officials of the future who will either...
Suddenly on Thursday, the radio networks of the Reich crashed out that thousands of Sudetens were fleeing to Germany, scrambling over the frontier at isolated points, and that at Eger, Führer Konrad Henlein had issued a proclamation before entering Germany as Czechoslovak Fugitive No. 1: "The use of machine guns, armored cars and tanks against defenseless* Sudeten Germans has reached the highest point of Czech oppression! ... It is definitely impossible for the Sudeten Germans and Czechs to live in the same state. . . . We want to return to our home† in the Reich! . . . God bless...