Word: frontierisms
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...heard in the Conococheague Valley either. The Black Boys were beating the Indians at their own game. In the Spring Smith's men joined the British regulars under Colonel Bouquet for a finish fight in the Ohio country. Three companies of regulars were left behind to protect frontier homes. When Smith's men came back 18 months later it was to discover that many a home had been raided while the rear guard was wintering snugly in Philadelphia to ease the nerves of unendangered Philadelphians. Among frontier settlers, confidence in British government reached...
...attack. The Black Boys blazed away all night, then slipped away and waited to intercept any messengers sent out. After more than 16 had been collected the commandant accepted an exchange of prisoners. The authorities called for court-martials but quieted down when it was learned that the whole frontier was in cahoots with the Black Boys...
...Mandate over the Holy Places, and an Arab State. First thing to notice and recall is that the Palestine Mandated Territory ("Palestine") and the Trans-Jordan Mandated Territory ("Trans-Jordan") are both held by Britain under one and the same mandate from the League. Thus, in a sense, the "frontier" between Palestine and Trans-Jordan has been anomalous, and this anomaly the British Cabinet now propose to sweep away, making a single political unit out of Trans-Jordan and the portion of Palestine now assigned and partitioned to the Arabs. Thus this week the Emir of Trans-Jordan, His Highness...
Soviet Russia had on its hands fortnight ago a frontier clash among the Amur River islands which ended when Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff secured hasty withdrawal of the Russian forces, claimed the Japanese had withdrawn too as promised by their Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu in Moscow (TIME, July 12). Last week Mr. Shigemitsu delicately hinted that there had been no Japanese promise to withdraw, and wrathful Comrade Litvinoff, on discovering that the Japanese either had not withdrawn or anyhow were on the disputed islands again within 48 hours, was in no mood to continue meek and conciliatory when news arrived...
...Paris the new Cabinet of the Popular Front threatened to abandon French neutrality in the Spanish conflict altogether by throwing open the French frontier for arms sales to Spanish Leftists, while keeping it closed to Spanish Rightists...