Word: frontierisms
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...coal. Biggest is a French-owned coal mine and this week, with the Leftists repulsed to a distance of twelve miles, miners resumed work and General Queipo de Llano radiorated louder than ever. Meanwhile, the widely advertised Aragon-Teruel offensive along the northeastern battle line from the French frontier to a point a little north of Valencia, over which both Rightists and Leftists were violently shadow-boxing fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 1), was postponed for at least ten days because of an act of God. Unexpected rains in the high Pyrenees flooded the Gállego and Ebro Rivers...
What the Leftist Government could do to forestall this, last week it did. Besides fortifying almost the whole 300 miles of the Aragon front from the French frontier to Teruel, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin prepared to move his Cabinet, lock, stock & barrel to Barcelona. For this there were reasons political, mechanical and military...
...seriousness and prudence, in a recent speech tossed to his audience hare-brained figures. . . ." Urgent notes went to Rome inviting the Fascist Government to discuss "immediate" withdrawal of foreign volunteers at a three-power conference. Behind this were veiled Franco-British threats of force, varying from opening the Catalan frontier for munitions and volunteers from France, to matching Italian volunteers with similar detachments of the French regular army...
These threats had little effect last week in Rome, where it is well known that the Cerbère-Portbou frontier was already open to everything that Leftists could pay cash for. Italy also feels that French and British public opinion -will not yet stand for open intervention. Instead Italy insisted on discussing recall of volunteers not at a three-power conference but before all 27 nations of the impotent Nonintervention Committee, including Italy's ally Germany. Britain and France were forced to agree. Lest this sound like too much of a blow to British prestige Foreign Secretary Anthony...
...Moscow, and Nanking last week hoped for "action" from the Soviet Union, feared the U. S. might hurl only words. Japanese were so scared lest the Red Army strike that Tokyo spokesmen announced 200,000 of Japan's "best" troops have been sent to man the Manchukuo-Soviet frontier, claimed that the Japanese troops thus far sent to China are not by any means the flower of the Mikado's legions, kept whistling loudly thus to keep up the Japanese people's courage...