Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations Commissioner, Geoffrey George Knox, was busily flicking his whip last week into one of Europe's wildest dog-pits, that smoking little valley of coal on France's northeastern border, the Saar Basin. Largely German, most of his charges would two years ago have welcomed the plebiscite scheduled for next year to decide whether the Saar will be French or German. But now Saar Socialists, Communists and Catholics, faced with choosing between their ancient enemy France and Nazi Germany, are begging to have the plebiscite postponed. Their newspapers howl direfully against Hitler & friends. In reply...
...forces was dumpy Dr. Julius Deutsch, Minister of War in Austria's first Republican Cabinet and ancient adversary of her Catholic Chancellor, the late great Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. The New York Times's sympathetic G. E. R. Gedye found him safe at Bratislava, just over the Czechoslovak border, guarded by a cordon of Czech Socialists from attempted assassination. A ricocheted bullet in his left eye left Dr. Deutsch so blind that he could only see the outline of objects. He was sick, exhausted, but eager to talk...
...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...
...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 25 miles away, that one of the great Skoda guns could blow the steeple off St. Stephen's without crossing the border. In Jugoslavia to the south whole divisions of Serbian troops had been moved up into Slovenia and Croatia and set to patrolling the frontier...
...Union Congress of the Party aired the customary phrases concerning the world revolution and the deepening contradictions of the capitalist order, the government either was not fully aware of the crisis in Austria or chose to disregard it in favor of the Japanese threat on the eastern border. There were two predominant, reasons for this negligence, I think; one is the obvious and much-publicized Russian nationalism which is afraid to jeopardize its economic arrangements with foreign countries by "meddling" in their internal affairs; the other is the Bolshevik scorn of the Viennese Social Democrats, antipathy which long outdates...