Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were delighted. In London, for the first time in ten years, there was enough snow for snowballs, and at Versailles there was skating on the Grand Canal. Casualties: 200 dead. Most inexcusable casualty: the freezing to death of ten German-Jewish refugees in a camp on the German-Polish border...
From Berlin last week came word that the man whom Führer Adolf Hitler had chosen to raise an army of White Russians to stir up trouble on the Ukrainian border was onetime Tsarist General Turkul. The general is accustomed to trouble, having recently been deported from France for alleged German dealings uncovered during the inquiry into the mysterious "kidnapping" of General Eugene de Miller, leader of Paris' White Russian colony...
...military side, both nations took steps to stand off Hitler's eastward push. Only 25 miles from completion was a 450-mile, four-lane highway running from Moscow to Minsk, near the Polish border, which can be used to transport Soviet troops and supplies to Poland if necessary. Poland, whose sizable army is one of the best-trained and officered among the small nations of Europe, announced that in the next three years an additional $300,000,000 would be spent on her armed forces and border defenses...
...Chiang is driven from the upper Yangtze valley, he may eventually have to retire to the Soviet-controlled areas of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia. Should that occur China's cause will necessarily become Russia's battle. For Russia cannot tolerate a Japanese threat to the long southern border of Siberia and the trans-Siberian railroad. But before that can happen Japan, which conquered one New China, will have to conquer still another New China not so strong in resources but much stronger in natural defenses...
...Kangtse, just outside the border of Tibet, last week waited the Panchen Lama, Tibet's "Living Buddha," now very much dead. He died 13 months ago while attempting to regain his godly throne. Since for religious reasons he could not be embalmed, and for political reasons cannot be taken into Tibet, he is still sitting, wrapped in shrouds, surrounded by hundreds of flickering yak-butter lamps, guarded by 2,000 armed retainers, serenaded by a brass band of 40 instruments...