Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Austria, only a massive range of mountains and a four-dollar visa (easily obtainable) separate the American citizen from Yugoslavia. Near the frontier, the Loiblpass rises like an angry snake, symbolic of Tito's political machinations over the last eight years; but on the other side, Slovenia, one of the seven federated states, stretches into a timid plain...
Disguising himself, he crossed the frontier and moved westward, begging food and shelter on the way: "When I saw a cross on the wall, I knocked on the door. Where there was a cross in the house, there was also a bite of bread for the refugee and a spot to sleep . . . God blessed me, and here I am in the free world...
...Frontier. The only solution was to pull back from Göring's finest bases to safer territory on the west bank of the Rhine, far enough away from the Iron Curtain to give allied planes a chance to get into the air before being overrun by Russian Panzers. Slowly, painfully slowly, NATO began building a brand-new air frontier, 100 to 250 miles farther back, in France and the Low Countries...
...here they found homes, jobs, and a stake in a bright, unlimited future ... In every town and village in Europe, from the Ural Mountains to the channel ports, that truth is known ... to the Czech, the Pole, the Hungarian who takes his life in his hands and crosses the frontier tonight-or to the Italian who goes to some American consulate-this ideal that beckoned him can be a mirage because of the McCarran Act. With leadership . . . we should have had and we must get a better...
...started when India and Pakistan, hostile ever since their split five years ago, decided that passports would be necessary for travel between the two countries. The rumor spread that the frontier would be permanently closed, leaving minorities on each side at the mercy of old enemies...