Word: frontierisms
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...shirts, smoking the best cigars. At restaurants just inside the French border they could be seen swizzling champagne, ordering such delicacies as speckled trout, fresh asparagus, vieux cognac. These lusty lads have been driving an average of 200 heavy trucks per day from Republican France over the officially closed frontier into Leftist Spain. The 2,000 tons they took in daily were mostly passed as "agricultural implements" or "foodstuffs." A truck careening down the road at Montauban overturned last week, the French driver was killed, four large cases of "foodstuffs" broke open, and out rolled war plane motors. At Honfleur...
...soldiers of France entered Spain up to this week, but some 6,000 Leftist soldiers fled over the mountainous Pyrenees frontier into France, and of these some 4,000 were promptly shipped by the French back by rail to Loyalist territory. From Barcelona the U. S. diplomatic mission moved 20 miles nearer France on the coast. Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin called for 100,000 fresh volunteers for the People's Army, and Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto no longer spoke of victory but tried to persuade the French that unless they sent help the methodical advance of Generalissimo Francisco...
...thus won "The Key to Barcelona," as even the Leftists have called Lérida, but it was 80 miles to the keyhole. With General Yague just starting keyholeward this week, twelve assorted Rightist forces were all making unchallenged claims to sweeping victories all the way from the French frontier which was smothered with refugees, down to Teruel. A major Rightist drive hurled itself down the widening valley of the Ebro River, and with Leftists surrendering so fast that what to do with so many prisoners became an acute Rightist problem, the Generalissimo besieged Tortosa from the land with troops...
Poliomyelitis has struck about 30% more frequently than the five-year average. So far the epidemic has been confined to the South. The number of cases is about 10% more than last year when the epidemic spread up the Mississippi Valley to Chicago, across the Niagara frontier from Toronto to Buffalo...
Arrests. The Vienna Nazi press jubilantly reported that thousands of deserted automobiles had piled up along the frontiers as Jews, Catholics and Schuschnigg supporters were caught trying to escape. Typical of the thoroughness with which Nazi adherents had prepared for "the day" was the fact that 24 hours after Nazification the Nazi guard at the remotest frontier post was armed with a fully tabulated, thumb-indexed book of many thousand names on the Nazi black list, which he checked against the passports of those wishing to cross. Most sensational arrest in Jewish financial circles was that of retired Banker Baron...