Word: frontierisms
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...March 9 Minton, Balch & Company brought out THE YELLOW BRIAR, by Patrick Slater, an auto-biographical novel with the Ontario countryside as a background. The author and his mother came over from Ireland during the potato famine and settled in Toronto when it was a booming frontier town. While there, he saw its public hangings and followed the plague cart which took his mother's dead body away. Later he went to the bush lands of upper Canada and became a part of the life of those stout-hearted Irish homesteaders...
...reached Brussels last week still in pale grey plus fours, after an all night ride from Switzerland. There are problems he must face at once. Communists were threatening a general strike. The Flemish separatists, always a noisy group, were supposed to have marked pro-Nazi leanings. Belgium's frontier defenses cannot compare with the new steel and concrete chain of France, but all young Leopold could hear last week was the sound of guns, fired one every half hour, to mourn the death of his father...
...that will endanger my comrades in Austria," said he, "The hangman is busy enough as it is. . . . But if you must have a story of a romantic retreat, tell that of the 47 Republican defense corps men who fought their way all the way from Vienna to the Czechoslovak frontier and marched triumphantly across the border carrying their machine guns and rifles which they surrendered at the first village they entered...
Start Something! Not since 1914 has there been such a massing of troops as ringed Austria last week (see map). Italy had 75,000 men at the frontier ready to move in an hour. Due north in Bavaria was the famed Austrian Legion of approximately 30,000 exiled Nazis ready to march back into Austria with weapons from German arsenals whenever Adolf Hitler should nod nis head. Along the Czechoslovak frontier approximately 35,000 men, with the heaviest siege guns in Central Europe, were ready for the first nation that started something. Viennese knew that the Czech frontier is only...
...have quite definite information that the Japanese have put 130,000 men in Manchuria, plus 110,000 or 115,000 troops of the Manchukuo Army and 12,000 Russian White Guards. . . . We have barred our frontier with a lock of steel and concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth. . . . We fear no comparison with an enemy in tanks and aviation...