Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young wife of the local Italian Consul General, was pulled roughly off her camel by impetuous Ethiopians who detained her in the desert for two days-or so the Italian Government announced, loudly protesting this "outrage." For the rest of the week Rome rang with outrages. Ethiopians on the border of Italian Eritrea were charged with every petty villainy from "stealing an Italian shepherd's ten bulls'' to "arresting Ethiopians caught selling food to an Italian consul...
Political calumny has long since obscured the moderate fact of Adolf Hitler's small talents as a young man. While his parents were still living in little Leonding not far from the Austro-German border, Adolf and his flaxen-haired mother decided he would be a painter or an architect. First obstacle was his besotted, burly father, retired cobbler and customs official. The father died when Adolf was 14. The mother was dying of a cancer. The neighbors thought lonely, daydreaming Adolf was losing his mind in sympathy for his mother's suffering because he spent all his time woodcarving...
...main condition imposed by Germany for co-operation would be Yugoslav acceptance of Austro-German union, which would make Germany our country's neighbor. Germany would obtain hegemony in Central Europe and the Balkans and only a crazy man could believe that Germany would halt at our border. She would continue her march to the Adriatic and Saloniki and Yugoslavia would become her vassal...
...Liberia in regard to a just debt but that matter has now been straightened out. It is also true that there is but one semblance of a road in the Republic, outside the Firestone plantation, but the Government is now building a thoroughfare through the interior to the French border and another road parallel with the coast to the southeastern boundary...
Last week puzzled Russian authorities called the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow down to Minsk, few miles from the Polish border. Since September 1934 they had been holding a strange man there. He could speak no Russian but they had finally decided that he must be an American. Sure enough, it was Ernest Elmer Baker, dressed up in an old Red Army uniform. He had worked his way to Rotterdam, jumped ship with $10 in his pocket, started to walk to Russia. He had no passport because to get one he would have had to swear...