Word: frontierisms
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...protested to the League that the towns in which Italian and Abyssinian troops recently clashed were on Abyssinian soil (TIME, Dec. 24 et seq.) Mussolini now contends that the "Ualual Incident," a three-day pitched battle in which 30 Italians and 110 Abyssinians died, occurred on Italian soil, the frontier line never having been exactly drawn. With the telltale map whisked out of the way, the League Council sat down to hear from Italian Delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi more about Abyssinian "aggression.'' There was, for example, the preliminary incident at Gondar, when Abyssinians shot an Italian consulate guard...
...Mutual agreement upon final demarcation of the long-disputed African frontier between Italian Libya and French West Africa...
...games and cinemas in penitentiaries lest "the prisons hold out a welcoming hand to the youth of the nation." Republican Hurley: "Such work as the extermination of crime should not be partisan." Republican Stimson: "It is not unnatural for the boys of a country which has recently lost its frontier to be excited and stimulated by tales of danger and thrilling adventure. But it is certainly all wrong for such a spirit to be fanned up artificially by the engines of a sensational Press, by the enterprising photographers who record all the horrid details of crime. . . ." Ferdinand Pecora, like most...
Exactly what happened, and exactly where, may never be clear. In the sun-baked district of Ualual, claimed by Abyssinians to be 100 kilometers inside their frontier, and claimed by Italians to be in Italian Somaliland, an Italian force had to fight for the surprisingly long time of three days to disperse some Abyssinians. The Italians boasted that they killed , claimed to have been wantonly attacked. The Italian Minister at Addis Ababa demanded "indemnity and moral reparations." His Imperial Majesty Power of Trinity I, reputed descendant of King Solomon's Queen of Sheba, promptly flashed charges to Geneva that...
Last week the Bolshevik frontier guards glared at a pompous, obviously capitalistic person who came chugging across the frontier River Dniester, made bold to land on Soviet soil. "You can't land." they told him. "Go back...