Word: frontierisms
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...between Russia and Japan, Manchuria will be considered as divided into two zones, Northern Manchuria and Southern Manchuria. Neither Russia nor Japan will send troops into Northern Manchuria, adjacent to the Soviet frontier, "unless unexpected events occur." So long as Japan confines her military action to Southern Manchuria, where her chief interests lie, the public declaration of Comrade Karakhan will stand: Russia will keep hands...
...Chile." The revolutionary Government of General Carlos Blanco Galindo held a "Constitutional Election" last January, then vanished gracefully in March after staging the ornate inaugural of elected President Daniel Salamanca. He last fortnight pleased President Hoover by agreeing to seek Pan-American mediation of Bolivia's everlasting frontier dispute with Paraguay...
...ideas of democracy. Republican and Communist ideas have seeped south from China proper. Rebellion began against the autocratic power of the mandarins some years ago, became a rebellion against France. First shots were fired more than two years ago when an Annamite garrison at Yen Bay on the China frontier mutinied and killed their French officers. Since then secret agents have discovered Communist "cells" in almost every native battalion, in almost every village. France smote hard. French troops and a regiment of the Foreign Legion were rushed from Syria. Mme Guillotine raised her gaunt arms in the public squares...
Such promises would have to be somewhat discounted. Russia does not want an Asiatic war just now. But Josef Stalin does have 5,000 Red Army troops encamped along the Russo-Manchurian frontier...
...paved the way for Crickard's brilliant sallies against the Army defense. Harvard's green line, undergoing its first real trial, emerged covered with glory Stacked up against a set of hard-bitten West Point veterans, Hardy, Hallowell, Esterly, Myerson, Kopans and their reliefs fought Army's far-famed frontier to a standstill...