Word: frontierisms
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...than appears on the surface. The old system of turning the entire country over to the military staff at the first sign of storm clouds was an enormous factor in preventing the localization of the conflict in 1914. When two mobilized armies glare at each other across an open frontier, diplomats might better go golfing than try to arbitrate...
Metz, France, April 19--French authorities tonight investigated eye-witness reports that a German plane flew over France's eastern frontier fortifications in the region of Thionville, at low altitude...
...late Jacob discovered he was being taken for a Nazi ride. Speeding at an estimated 80 kilometres per hour, the car nearly ran down a Swiss frontier guard who jumped aside just in time, plunged out of Switzerland and into Germany where it stopped. Same night Jacob was announced by Nazi newsorgans to have been "caught and arrested on German soil." Dr. Wesemann incautiously returned to Basle and was nabbed by Swiss detectives to whom he confessed. Last week the Swiss Government officially informed the German Government that Wesemann is held as hostage for the safety and release from Germany...
...French youths of the class which has just finished its military training shall not return to their homes but remain under arms until further orders. Newly trustful of Italy since the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 14), France withdrew nearly 30,000 troops last week from her mountainous Italian frontier, sent them scurrying cross-country to the pleasant valleys and leafy woods Germans might attack...
Simultaneously some 30,000 French poilus were ordered by President Lebrun to man the elaborate concrete fortifications France has thrown up along her German Frontier...