Word: frontierisms
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...seem to M. Francon, the answer is France. Strangely enough, the Germans cannot follow the Gallic-Anglo-Saxon logic which makes it an axiom that, of the two nations, Germany will be the aggressor. They will even point to the little unpleasantness of 1924, when a defenseless frontier was crossed and the old experiment of wringing blood from a stone performed by this same French Army. If a reason such as was advanced then for the invasion of prostrate Germany suffices for the French, Germany sees little reason to count on permanent privacy-a view which M. Flandin's appalling...
...directly nor indirectly concerned. We can say without fear of contradiction that we have kept the Locarno Treaty not only in letter but in spirit. We have been absolutely loyal and clear, and the rights on our side are 100%. The existence of a demilitarized zone on our German frontier constituted protection behind which we felt less exposed. If it is true that no country in the world today is able to assure its own security alone, it is even surer when applied to a small nation, for which respect for international law assumes capital importance...
...Hoare, to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia by the Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week Sir Robert was busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian-Belgian round-robin agreement, under the terms of which Britain would specifically agree to FIGHT at any breaching of the Locarno Rhineland frontier...
Baldwin's Frontier. To hard-headed Europeans one fact dominated all others: Stanley Baldwin was still spending $160,000 per day to keep British ships within striking distance of League-defying Italy but not one farthing to put British ships within range of League-defying Germany. Yet it was Mr. Baldwin who not two years ago solemnly declared that, for defensive purposes, Britain's frontier is now the Rhine (TIME, Aug. 13, 1934). In all parts of Germany correspondents reported Nazis spontaneously boasting with broad grins: "Well we have crossed the 'British frontier' of Herr Baldwin...
...Angrily debated a motion recommending that the Covenant of the League of Nations be so revised that Sanctions can never again be applied nor breach of a frontier be cited by the League as grounds for punishing the treaty-breaker...