Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Comte de Broqueville continued: "Belgium would be helpless before another German invasion. . . . The weakness of our present frontier is notorious. . . . The Government must regretfully propose the construction as rapidly as possible of a system of fortresses built on entirely new lines to resist the impact of modern war machinery...
...told that the German Reichswehr numbers only 100,000 soldiers. But one must include 200,000 reservists who have served in the Reichswehr and would augment this perfectly drilled army overnight. . . .We are told that Germany plans only to defend her own frontier with these forces. I warn you that the German war theory now, as before the War, involves swift attack and the occupation of a large portion of Belgium. German military philosophy may be summed up in three rules: Work fast, attack, and carry the war into the enemy's territory...
Further unconfirmed rumors reported the mobilization of six Fascist legions in war regalia along the Italo-French frontier between Modane and Ventimiglia. Though alarmists descried war clouds, the force mobilized numbered less than 9,000 men, and seemed occupied merely with rather elaborate drills and war games...
...Frontier Seizure. Mrs. Hallie F. Flanagan, Associate Professor at Vassar, Director of the Vassar Experimental Theatre, arrived at Reval, Esthonia, last week, from a six weeks' visit in Russia. She reported that every courtesy was shown her at Leningrad where a special performance of the Ballet Russe was given in her honor...
When she attempted to leave Russia, however, the frontier officials insisted that she was a Russian, despite her U. S. passport and the fact that she could not speak Russian. Acting with this assertion as their excuse they took from her: 1) letters of credit aggregating $3,000; 2) all her "undecipherable" papers and notes in English. Mrs. Flanagan was then allowed to proceed, reached Reval, applied to the local Soviet consul, and secured through him the return of her papers. He explained that the local frontier officials had exceeded their authority, patriotically supposing that "nobody ought to be allowed...