Word: frontierisms
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Austrian Surprise. Italy was raised definitely out of the "wop" class in 1934 when German moves to seize Austria, culminating in the Nazi assassination of plucky little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, caused Benito Mussolini to hurl Italian forces up to the Austrian frontier, warn Adolf Hitler by telephone to keep hands off and assume the protectorship of Austria, which Italy has maintained ever since...
...family are big in German industry, and big Austrian industrialists recently sat up all night in his legation with Dr. Schacht, president of the Reichsbank. as the pot simmered (TIME, June 29). One day last week Adolf Hitler slipped out of Berlin, ensconced himself near Austria's frontier among the motto-encrusted sofa cushions of his snuggery at Berchtesgaden, and von Papen laid before him the whole Deal, as concocted by Mussolini and Schuschnigg, Schacht and von Papen. The German Dictator decided to sign...
...before he mastered English in Manhattan's DeWitt Clinton High School. Last December he helped get his brother Emile, French nurseryman, out of a Nazi jail after Emile had insulted Adolf Hitler on French soil, been yanked across the border by a German tobacconist and nabbed by frontier police. Another Jolas brother is Jacques, until last year dean of University of Louisville's School of Music...
...since Stanley Baldwin said that Great Britain's frontier is no longer the white cliffs of Dover but the wimpling Rhine (TIME, Aug. 13, 1934) have Berlin statesmen been so vexed at London as they were last week. Reason: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for War, the Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff-Cooper, had hied himself to Paris and there made a speech in which he told Frenchmen...
...Your frontier is our frontier! . . . One of the realities of which my British compatriots sometimes lose sight is that friendship between Britain and France is not a question of sentiment or even of choice. There still are today many Englishmen who are so blind in their prejudices that they sincerely believe Britain entered the War from sheer kindness of heart, solely in order to aid her friends, the French. We entered the War because our vital interests were at stake and because our lives were endangered. We must stand together in a defense of our common civilization against barbarism...