Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When we talk of new lands in Europe, we are bound to think first of Russia and her border states...
Nazi agents, by intrigue and radio propagandizing, have agitated for a Greater Ukraine ever since Munich. Centre of the campaign is Carpatho-Ukraine, easternmost district of Nazified Czecho-Slovakia. Hungary and Poland also covet the strategic Carpatho-Ukraine, and there have been border fights on both frontiers of the territory...
What took place on the Carpatho-Ukrainian border last week, however, was no mere guerrilla scrap but several minor military actions and one small, desperate, pitched battle. The suspicion was that these were instigated by Germany and, besides being a warning to Hungary to lay off, were possibly the Nazis' first violent move toward setting up the nucleus of the Greater Ukrainian State...
...dead of night, Czech soldiers at the disposal of the Carpatho-Ukraine Government, aided by armed members of the SIC, a militant political organization under German auspices, advanced on the border town of Munkacs, awarded to Hungary in the post-Munich territorial revision. Hungarian frontier police and troops met them. A battle began in which the Czech forces used tanks, armored cars and trench mortars...
...Ambassador said at a press conference that Germany and Italy are much more interested in Spain for its strategic possibilities than for raw materials. He said that his government has "absolute factual information" that the two authoritarian powers have 19 air bases in the Basque country near the French border, and that Germany has "complete possession" of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic...