Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strongly Recommend." Since the war, said MacArthur, the U.S.'s strategic frontier has shifted to embrace the whole Pacific. It now runs along an island chain held by the U.S. and its allies from the Aleutians to the Marianas. "Any major breach of that line . . . would render vulnerable io determined attack every other major segment . . . This is a military estimate as to which I have yet to find a military leader who will take exception. For that reason, I have strongly recommended in the past . . . that under no circumstances must Formosa fall under Communist control." Republicans applauded wildly...
...newsmen: "I will go to friends and to my dogs who surely wait for me." As for German participation in European defense: "I can't imagine myself fighting shoulder to shoulder with contingents whose military leaders today condemn German generals." Into the "visitors' book" at the German frontier post, Falkenhausen-who claims that he had tried to help the Belgians (TIME, March 19)-wrote: "Ingrata Belgia, non possidebis ossa mea [Ungrateful Belgium, you shall not possess my bones...
...payment and going into debt for the rest, paying it off over the years." In 1938, he was elected governor, but, lacking a politician's practical sense, ran into trouble. (Once, on the advice of an aide, he wore spats at a public ceremony, thus alienated thousands of frontier-minded Oregonians.) Because he talked to capital reporters with the forthrightness of an editor, he got into hot water that a "no comment" would have avoided, and missed re-election...
...Greek soldier owns one uniform, and often as not his shoes have holes in them. He eats and lives at a low standard. A battalion I visited well to the rear of the frontier had 500 men, only 150 beds. The mess hall for each company consisted of a leanto, two large pots, a meat ax, a couple of knives and some ladles. Bread and bean soup, liberally dosed with olive oil, is the main diet. Yet no one ever hears a Greek soldier complaining of the chow. Most of the men never had it so good. Corporal Elias Papadopoulos...
...even the friendliest traveler had a stiff time getting into Russia. French Marquis Astolphe de Custine, warmly pro-Russian, was astonished at the questions he got at the frontier...