Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countries that border on Rome must...
Altogether it was an unrelieved week of lost face for the Japanese. A spokesman in Tokyo admitted that the fighting against Russia on the Mongolian border, terminated by a surprise truce on Sept. 16, had been climaxed by a "disastrous, bitter battle." Soviet forces both numerically and mechanically superior to the Japanese had engaged them on the barren Holumbar Plain, devoid of cover of any kind, and whipped them. Admitted casualties: 18,000 killed, wounded, sick...
Turning to Japan, he said, "The deal between the Nazis and the Bolsheviks and the armistice between Russia and Japan over the Mongolian-Manchukuan border would indicate that Japan must reorient her foreign policy...
Died. Paddy Reilly, 12, oft-decorated, Scotch-Welsh border terrier, mascot for the Humane Society of New York; of toxic poisoning of the kidneys; in Manhattan. He had saved from drowning, fire and asphyxiation some 40 lives, mostly human, but including canine, feline, and one canary. Sometimes garbed in a straw hat with pipe in mouth, occasionally wearing a brown derby presented to him by Al Smith, Paddy Reilly would appear in front of the New York Public Library to raise funds for the Humane Society...
...first big news of a great war all to themselves. Attached to the Associated Press bureau in Budapest, he set out northward as Polish resistance dissolved into rout before Germany's mechanized might, passed lines of stolid peasants straggling into Hungary, sullen groups of soldiers retreating across the border, and reached LwÓw as it was crashing into ruins after 14 days of steady bombing by German planes...