Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day reporters rushed to Secretary Hull's regular press conference at 12:30 p. m. "Gentlemen," said the Border Statesman, giving them a glacial stare, "I have nothing to say on the City of Flint or transference to the Panama flag...
...more likely story was that the two sovereigns wanted to let Adolf Hitler know that they would defend their neutrality, and their frontiers, together. The concentration of Nazi troops on the Belgian and The Netherlands border and the recent tone of the German press and Foreign Office toward the Low Countries made Belgians and Netherlanders fear that both might well need defending...
...reassuring statements, persuaded the Dutch and Belgian press to keep cool heads. But all Belgians and Dutchmen had to do to learn the newest sensation of the moment was to turn on British and French radios. In the U. S. eight-column streamers shouted "GUNS ROAR ON DUTCH-NAZI BORDER," "ULTIMATUM TO HOLLAND REPORT." Piqued, the Dutch Government threatened to expel foreign newsmen who sensationalized...
Tension was increased when at the border town of Venlo (see map), a Dutch car drew up just short of the line. Two men got out, one a member of the Dutch secret service. From the German side of the border came a car carrying six men in plain clothes, evidently Gestapo. They jumped out shooting. The Dutch sleuth fell. The Nazis dragged him and his comrade across the border into Germany, also kidnapping two other men who had sat talking in a nearby tavern...
...days later a detachment of Nazi soldiers came to the same border station and removed all the furniture from that part of the German customs house which stands on Dutch soil...