Word: border
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Chief announced aim of the Franco Tourist Office was to demonstrate that back of the front all is normal in Rightist Spain. Unannounced aim: to get needed foreign exchange for Rightist Spain's war. Tour No. 1 will run from burned Irun, on the French border, to Oviedo, scene of 15 months' fierce siege. Tour No. 2 will go from Tuy to Santander. Both tours will include such partially or wholly destroyed towns as Eibar, Guernica, Durango, Gijón, each a scene of important military engagements in Generalissimo Franco's last year's wiping...
...League of Nations, to vote themselves a legislature. The predominant nationality of the legislature will profoundly influence the Sanjak's destiny. That this destiny was important to its neighbors as well as . the Sanjak, was plain last week. Turkish soldiers were reported concentrating on the northern border and French Foreign Legionnaires enforced martial law in Alexandretta and Antioch. Riots had broken out between tarbooshed, orthodox Moslem Arabs and European-hatted, free-thinking Turks...
...mountainous South Tyrol sticks out as the weakest spot in the Berlin-Rome axis. Promise of this 30-mile, largely vertical strip along the Italian-Austrian border was part of the secret deal which in 1915 brought the Kingdom of Italy into the World War against her former Central Powers allies. No minorities treaty was signed by Italy, but until minority-hating Fascism's advent there was little oppression of the German population. In 1923 a determined program of oppressive "Italianization" was inaugurated. In the district's schools only Italian teachers conducting lessons in Italian were allowed. Germanic...
Nestling in a mountainous region along the Turkish border on the eastern Mediterranean, the 1,500-square-mile district, is a true Levantine melting pot. The Sanjak contains substantial numbers of Turks, Alaouites, Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, Greeks and Circassians. Only two and a half hours by car from railway junction Aleppo, 200 miles from Damascus (see map), the Sanjak has one irresistible attraction for Great and Small Powers alike: the landlocked Gulf of Alexandretta, even in its undeveloped state one of the safest, best ports of the Levantine coast...
...Sanjak to be governed from Damascus by Syrian "Arabs. For the Father of the Turks, the spectacle of a petty Arab nation, formerly a subject people, ruling over their oldtime Turkish masters was too much. He protested to France and the League. Twice he moved his troops to the border to "protect" his Sanjak children, once he held a military powwow on a border-bound train. Only his cautious prime minister, deaf, stubborn Ismet Inonii, persuaded him from ordering his soldiers to fire...