Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest reports the Slovak-Hungarian parley at Komarno had given Budapest no territory except the town of Ipolysag and the Slovak portion of Satoraljaujhely on the border. Hungary was asking 6,000 square miles with a population of 1,200,000 but was apparently getting no backing in this demand from Germany...
What hundreds of Soviet soldiers, tanks and heavy guns were unable to do ten weeks ago-drive the Japanese off bleak & barren Changkufeng hill on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border-September's floods accomplished. Last week travelers from Manchukuo reported that Russian troops, after Japanese retired before the flood, planted their red flag atop the hill and began to pit it with fortifications...
...five minutes before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually in motion toward the Czech border which they were to cross at 2 p.m., Il Duce in Rome rang up Chancellor Hitler at Berlin and they talked for 45 minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt, an appeal to which the only reply was an anti-Roosevelt tirade delivered that same evening to an audience of 175,000 Germans by No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The results of the Mussolini-Hitler conversation were flashed to London where they brought...
...scores of border clashes Czechs and Sudetens were killed, but there were no charges that anyone in German Army uniform joined the fray up to this week...
...down to investigate, six masked men whooped out from the trackside, fired shots in the air and forced their way into the gold car. An accomplice, hidden on the train, joined them as they hurriedly lugged the gold crates to their cars. Then they sped away toward the Italian border...