Word: frontierisms
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...They have built 2,200 kilometres of main roads in these two years, either parallel to our borders or running from the interior to the frontier...
...born and bred to the trade of a foundry workman, Russia's War Commissar spends much time inspecting and orating to collective farms and factories. In 1931, when trouble with Japan first loomed, and again in 1933 ''Klim" inspected not only the whole Soviet Far East frontier but the leading mines, smelters, metallurgical plants, factories and, on his last trip, the colonies of ex-Red soldiers now being established by Dictator Stalin's orders as the patriotic rallying points of luckless Russians who are being forced to colonize Red Far East open spaces as buffers...
...only natural that an IDEA which has deeply stirred and permeated the German nation would not halt at the frontier posts of a country which for centuries was an integral part of the German Empire." Two weeks late, Germany replied to Austria's plaintive note citing specific examples of German-inspired Nazi outrages in Austria. With a cavalier sweep wholly unsatisfactory to Vienna, Berlin abruptly denied all charges. Into steep-roofed Innsbruck the mobilized, armed Heimwehr marched, practically seizing control of the city. It was rumored that they had been ordered to do so to forestall a Nazi Putsch...
...able to turn her splendid industrial plant to war purposes in a very short time. With Germany rapidly getting back to her prewar military footing, the rest of the world does not lag far behind. France has just completed a vast chain of fortifications across her Eastern frontier; the armies of Balkanized Southern and Central Europe have reached a new peak in efficiency and numbers. Japan has embarked upon a program of naval and military expansion which threatens to bankrupt the government, and yesterday announced that the army was being reorganized and strengthened. Not to be outdone the United States...
...into the sea tomorrow, it would only provide a human interest story for the Boston American, with cuts, and a new job for the Physics profs. The latest cheerful dispatch from Manchukuo, indicating the altruistic mission of a large body of soldiery to "deal with bandits on the Siberian frontier" doesn't bother anyone but the Russians, who, as everyone knows, don't count. In fact, all the European countries are wishing they could run excursion trains into the maritime provinces in the spring to cheer the Japs as they munch the bored cadavers of stagnant Siberians. In short...