Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though Britons long since ceased painting themselves for battle, they were blue all over last week about their position on the Far Eastern Front of the War of Nerves. The Japanese, having stripped Far Eastern Britons of clothes and Face (Oriental for respectability), moved troops into position along the border of Hong Kong territory to be ready, if necessary, to take lives as well...
...Hong Kong, 1,000 men swept across the granite-peaked peninsula behind a curtain of bombings, unresisted except by a few peasants, some of whom were armed only with farm implements. The attackers, summarily executing any Chinese so much as seen with a gun, invested 13 miles of British border. Across the way on British soil, men of the Middlesex Regiment and Rajputana Rifles lined the barbed-wire frontier, alert for Britain's territorial integrity...
...attacks on her Marseille-Algiers shipping from Italy's Sardinia and the Spanish Balearic Islands. But Spain is not necessarily a fatal loss to Britain and France. Along the Pyrenees (see map, pp. 28 & 29) the French have railway spurs running up into high country at the Spanish border; the Spanish, on the other hand, have few such spurs-and also few good roads...
...although for more than a hundred years no big war has been fought on German soil. In 1914 this was due to German possession of Alsace and Lorraine, which kept the French from pouring through the Lorraine Gateway and the Belfort gap. In 1870, when the French owned the border provinces, the stupidity of Marshal Bazaine, who shut himself up in the fortress of Metz and refused to stir, deprived France of the opportunity to push into the South German Basin...
...Seas. The new river beds and the old connecting valleys make it relatively easy for soldiers to roll across the Baltic Plain in any direction. Germany's soldiers rolled against Russia in 1914 on railroad lines built especially to serve strategic purposes. On the Russian side of the border railroafls were as few as they were many in Germany. It was a situation which parallels that on the Spanish-French frontier. The situation still exists but the border has moved and the outer fringe of German lines is now in Poland and the Polish corridor...