Word: frontierisms
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...last night in Paris they got home to their hotel toward dawn, were off next day for The Netherlands in their Maybach without realizing what was in the rumble seat. As the great car shot across France, frantic telephone calls from Paris strove to intercept it and at the frontier barrier Her Royal Highness learned that her sleepy Dutch maid had bundled into the rumble $10,000 worth of gowns which had come to her "on approval" and which she had intended to leave behind to be sent back to the shops. Chuckling, the Crown Princess and Prince Consort rummaged...
Next, popping into an airplane, Dictator Mussolini flew to Amseat on the Egyptian frontier. There, where a 200-mi. barbed-wire Egyptian boundary fence begins its southern sweep, he inaugurated the Balbo-built "Greatest Highway in Africa," 1,200 miles of macadamized strategic coastal road, over which Il Duce soon would drive back westward to Tripoli, the colonial capital. Before setting out he first inspected elaborate underground fortifications along the coast and flew from Tobruk to Derna, a name stirring to every historically-minded U. S. Marine...
...cars whirled Mussolini & Balbo, the ten-day program including major Mohammedan homage at the Arch of Triumph* newly erected at the halfway point on the motor road, then opening of the annual Tripoli Sample Fair by Il Duce. a dash by air almost up to the French frontier, a performance of Oedipus Rex in the ancient Roman amphitheatre near Tunisia, and finally a second grand Italian day & night naval review with plenty of Fascist fireworks. Much as onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II used to angle for Islam's applause, Dictator Mussolini is making it a point to visit every important Mohammedan...
...Soviet Union?" smiled Mr. Davies. This led, as any question about price always does in Russia, to dispute over the illusive "real value" of the ruble. Since it has never been quoted freely on international exchange or been permitted to move without rigid State restriction across the Soviet frontier, there is no standard for comparing Soviet costs in monetary units with U. S. costs unless the frankly artificial ruble-dollar rate in Moscow be accepted. Last week the disputants never got around to working out the price of Soviet aluminum in dollars & cents, but whatever it costs, the Government...
...city which retains in its architecture much smack of Capitalist pomp. It is also a chief Soviet industrial centre - most unfortunately from a strategic point of view. For that matter the industrial centres of the Ukraine visited by Mr. Davies last week are located much too near the European frontier of Russia for the peace of the Soviet's military minds. Imperial Russia had enormously larger buffer territories, holding Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and great areas now part of the Balkans- but part of Lenin's genius in founding Soviet Russia was in perceiving that unless...