Word: frontierisms
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Back from the Austrian frontier last week Benito Mussolini withdrew the 50,000 troops, the tanks and field guns that he sent to prevent an Austrian Nazi Putsch after the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6). Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Austrian Vice Chancellor, had just reported in Rome to Il Duce that Austria is now quiet. This week the new Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, is due in Italy to attend the annual war games as Premier Mussolini's guest. Last week the Italian troops which marched away from Austria did not march far. Most went back to their...
...Vienna dynamic young Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Riidiger von Starhemberg remained totally unimpressed. "I know that the Austrian Legion has been moved back into Germany away from our frontier," said he, "but I know on the other hand from reliable reports from Germany that every preparation is being made so that they can be brought to the frontier again without loss of time when required. ... I am quite convinced that we shall have to face another Nazi Putsch, probably before the end of the year...
...remark that "The Pacific Coast is still generations closer to frontier days than any other part of the country," and "Labor, too, has still something of the devil-may-care spirit of the dance halls and the lumber camps...
...that popular John Bull, bottle-nosed Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, as he championed the Government's big Air Force program in homely phrases against a Labor motion of censure and let fall a sentence which rang round the world. "Since the day of the air the old frontiers are gone," cried Orator Baldwin, "and when you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the white cliffs of Dover, but you think of the Rhine. That is where, today, our frontier lies...
Geraldine Farrar, motoring from Munich to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria, was stopped at the frontier by German guards who refused to allow her German chauffeur to leave the country. Miss Farrar offered to pay the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa for her chauffeur, was turned down. Leaving her car and driver at the border, she hiked five miles into Salzburg, arrived a little late for Beethoven's Fidelio...