Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then the Italian commander sent a motorized column to fan out westward toward the British Sudan border and Lake Tana on his right. For them the going was fairly easy. No fool politically, Marshal Badoglio gave command of this column to the Farley of Fascismo, ebullient Achille Starace, secretary general of the Fascist...
...hotel on a mountain peak just inside the Italian border, an international collection of travelers are interned until Rome has time to see who is going to fight whom in an impending war. There are a pair of honeymooning Britons, a German scientist, a French Communist, all of whom give every evidence of being men of good will. There are also a French armament maker, his Russian mistress, Irene (Lynn Fontanne), a troupe of U. S. showgirls whom she calls "obvious little harlots," and their blatant but philosophical master of ceremonies, Harry Van (Alfred Lunt). When a nearby Italian airport...
Amid echoes of recent Russo-Japanese border fighting and with the general European situation anything but halcyon, the note of friendship struck at the London Naval Conference loses nothing by contrast. Indeed, the Davis-Eden exchange of assurances is perhaps the only clearly perceivable result of many months of arduous but ineffectual labor...
...Taking the quixotic hypothesis that he desires no revenge on France, one wonders why he does not give back the other leg to the dove of peace and sign a similar agreement with the Soviet. Poland may be a buffer state, but in an agreement Germany could extend her border to include Poland, as Britain has to the Rhine. If Germany's attitude were really one of peace, it would be easy to conceive of Poland as the Slavic Belgium...
...Locarno Pact has been quietly embalmed, but the ghost may walk to plague Britain yet. In such a crisis a conciliatory attitude borders dangerously upon ineffectiveness, and in this case the border has been overstepped. Hitler should feel no more bound to accept this solution than any other which has previously emanated from London. Once again the League has so expertly confused the issue and undermin?...