Word: border
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...which supplement the text. Probably the best of these is the reproduction of a rare Debucourt engraving of the battle at Rodriguez canal. Lengthy annotation and bibliography give further notice that Mr. James is no man to leave a good work unburnished. This present volume carries Jackson through his border-captain days up to 1821. A second and concluding volume is in preparation...
...admitted that the Tyrol was probably 75% pro-Nazi. Since then has come Chancellor Dollfuss' personal success at the London Economic Conference, the patriotism campaign, the winning of the right to increase Austria's army, Germany's virtual embargo on tourists to Austria, her unbelievably stupid border skirmishing in which she alienated thousands by killing several Austrian frontier guards, and the active fortification of the Austrian frontier (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week tight-lipped Major Emil Fey, Minister of Public Safety, was able to crow to correspondents...
...little war scare, announced that the maneuvers were merely the usual autumn field practice. He did not add that little Austria, which has just received official permission to increase its little army from 22,000 to 30,000 men, had last week 40,000 armed men on the Bavarian border. Supplementing the 22,000 regulars, the force is made up of drafts from the gendarmerie and the grey-shirted heimwehr. He did not add that twelve private airplanes contributed chiefly by members of Austria's Fascist Heimwehr organization were patroling the border to shoo back Nazi planes coming over...
Only his silk-vested and sombreroed courtiers realized how sick a man was King Feisal of Irak last month when, after his soldiers and some fierce border Kurds had massacred 600 Assyrians, he awaited, "in spite of my broken health," the arrival of a British investigator (TIME, Aug. 28). His impatience to leave for a "vacation" in Switzerland sounded, especially in view of his holiday in England only a few weeks prior, like an effort to gloss over the massacre. Last week came proof it was no such thing. The Assyrian trouble was quieted, but not a disturbance in lean...
...huge project, to send a 2,000-mi. rope of roads and railways clear across China at a cost of $50,000,000 gold. It might start from Peiping, dangerously near the Manchukuo border and greedy Japanese eyes; or it might cut southward through the mountains along the Yellow River basin. It might arrow straight west from Nanking to Shensi Province and thence along the overgrown track of the ancient Great Highway to Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into...