Word: frontierisms
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...unofficial war, local and exceedingly private, was waged last week on the Russo-Japanese frontier. During most of the week the Soviet Government officially ignored its existence. The Japanese, on the contrary, reported daily battles, accompanied by heavy barrages of artillery, air and tank attacks...
...only bridge across the river is higher up. Japanese officers in the area were incensed. "It is crazy," one of them exploded to a correspondent, "for the Russians to attempt to retake Changkufeng!" Meanwhile Moscow, with something at last to boast about, admitted heavy fighting, announced that the Russian frontier had been "cleansed" of Japanese, a claim which the Japanese promptly denied. In Tokyo, the Foreign Office described conversations between its Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Foreign Commissar Litvinov which left the diplomatic situation...
...Austrian refugees who had been allowed temporary refuge in the country would be forcibly driven back into Germany at the first opportunity. Working in the dead of night, Czechoslovak police took 15 such refugees to a remote spot on the German border, and drove them over undetected by German frontier guards. Prepared for the worst, the Bureau last week tentatively added 60,000 Italian Jews to its list of potential refugees...
...keep on calling such operations "frontier clashes" was fantastic. But neither Russia nor Japan wants open war. Both prefer to fight a little at a time as convenient. Chinese, whose air force today consists largely of Soviet-built planes, credited Russia with creating a diversion which last week led the worried Japanese to cease bombing Canton, gave that gory, undefended metropolis four days of respite...
...Paris political wisecrackers, recalling that Stanley Baldwin four years ago asserted that Britain's air frontier is the Rhine, chuckled that Chamberlain had moved the British frontier from the Rhine to the Danube...