Word: frontierisms
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...satellite of Britain, to be immediately attacked from Italian Libya in case Italy and the United Kingdom find themselves at war, so her Minister of War and Marine Hassan Sabry Pasha was in London, busily consulting with the British War Office. Meanwhile, Egypt's defenses along the frontier of Italian Libya were inspected by popular young King Farouk I on a flying visit to pep up Egyptian troops...
This neutral U. S. correspondents eyewitnessed. Dashing about in motorcars, they verified that only in the western frontier sector of the Sudeten German area had there been bloodshed. The north, east and south were calm "with business as usual," but in the west 46 had been killed by Wednesday night and savage acts were verified. Citizens of Habersberg gave eyewitness testimony that on Tuesday fully-armed Sudeten Nazis had besieged the local commandant and his gendarmes for three hours. When the commandant surrendered and emerged, they said, Nazis closed in around him, beat and kicked the commandant to death...
Schwaderbach- On Thursday, while Mr. Chamberlain was in the air, Sudeten German violence burst out on a much larger scale. Storm Troops besieged, captured police headquarters in the border town of Schwaderbach, opened the frontier to Germany, and marshaled such a heavy show of armed force that fresh forces of gendarmes who arrived were ordered by Dr. Benes from Prague to hold their ground around the town but not attack, lest the scale of operations amount to "warfare...
When the Soviet Union's Foreign Commissar, roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was reminded by correspondents last spring that Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union have no common frontier and was asked how his country could possibly go to Czechoslovakia's aid in case of war, the Commissar exclaimed: "Where there's a will there...
This seemed to mean that Germany will attack Czechoslovakia if she should mobilize, and Herr Hitler next plunged into telling Germans how "278,000 men are now working to fortify our western frontier which will be ready before winter!" Having thus suggested that Germany is not yet quite ready to fight, Der Führer swung into a threatening conclusion in which he vented his rage at President Benes' offer of 700,000,000 koruny as a pacifier to the Sudeten Germans...