Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year is 1938; the place is Tokot, a town on the Northwest Frontier of India. Captain Carruthers, His Majesty's Resident, and British to the last hair of the tiny mustache on his stiff upper lip, steps up to a curtain behind which he thinks an assassin is hiding. "Why must you do it?" his wife cries. "Because I must," he replies firmly. His answer, in fact the whole picture, is a sort of swansong of the white man who is beginning to stagger under his burden...
...through a mined field on the Red Hungarian border. They had almost reached their goal when one of the Bagos stepped on a mine. Alerted by the explosion, Communist border guards opened fire, but somehow, though two were badly wounded, the family managed to crawl on to Nickelsdorf, a frontier village in the Soviet zone of Austria...
...Karachi last week, iron-minded, frail bodied Governor General Ghulam Mohammed decreed for himself further "emergency powers." He signed an edict combining four provinces (Sind, Baluchistan, West Punjab and Northwest Frontier Province) and several princely states into one unit called West Pakistan (pop. 33.5 million). He put his civil servants to work on what Pakistan's Constituent Assembly had for seven years failed to achieve-a constitution...
Roosevelt and Churchill stooped to wheedling flattery. Be magnanimous, they said. At least, said Roosevelt, give Poland the oil province of Lvov (it lay east of the Curzon line, which the Allies of World War I had proposed as the fairest ethnic frontier between Poland and Russia). Churchill lifted the appeal to an oratorical height: "This is what is dear to the hearts of the nation of Britain . . . that Poland should be free and sovereign . . . mistress in her own house and in her own soul . . . [Our] interest is only one of honor...
...sent to assassinate him last April. Vowed Tacho to accompanying newsmen: "I will not shake hands with the man who hired assassins to murder me and my family." Later, in private, Nixon tactfully persuaded Tacho to promise that there would be no further disturbances on the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican frontier...