Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astounded U.S. officials reflected that neither Hill nor Jones could speak a word of Czech, probably wouldn't know a military secret from a comic book, and had blundered across the border without entry papers; it seemed almost certain that the Czechs were simply using them as a way of getting even. Since the first of the year, a U.S. military commission at Munich had sentenced a series of Czech spies to long prison terms...
German authorities reported that they had been arrested by Czech police for illegally crossing the border, and were being held in jail behind the Iron Curtain. U.S. officials were refused the right to visit them. The U.S. embassy at Prague protested repeatedly, and its protests were either ignored or evaded. Three months went by before the Czech government made a terse announcement: Hill and Jones were being held for espionage. Last week the Czechs broke their silence again with an even more chilling report. The pair had been secretly tried as spies, had been sentenced to long terms at hard...
...They help train Persia's gendarmerie. That, said Acheson,is all. Acheson did not say so but it is a fact that scores of Communist agents have swarmed into northern Persia in the last few months. Teheran last week reported an "incident" near Gurgan, on the Persian-Russian border, where 50 Russian soldiers clashed with Persian forces; one Persian was killed, two abducted...
...took office in February, Yeh told Peiping's municipal workers: "I often make mistakes and I welcome correction. But I would not welcome it chalked on the toilet wall." Other Red delegates: General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria; Lin Po-chu, chairman of the Communist Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia border government; Li Weihan, Communist party whip and negotiator at Marshall mission conferences two years...
Last week TIME Correspondent William White called on Vargas at his farm not far from the Argentine border. White found the short-legged little man deeply tanned from days in the saddle, a picture of health at 65. O Presidente wore a faded blue shirt tucked into a gaucho's baggy blue bomachos...