Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the heart of Germany, from the Baltic to the Alps, the "chicken-wire fence," which split but did not sever the East & West zones, became the newest extension of the Iron Curtain, and a bristling military frontier. Where there had been a steady if illegal trickle of East-West trade, now there was an absolute barrier, charged with electric hatreds, and ominously reminiscent of Korea's 38th parallel...
...program promises to tear the social and economic fabric of the country as surely as did Mexico's revolutionary land reforms. Even before the bill was passed passions blazed in capital and countryside. Near the eastern frontier, rabble-rousing organizers of the National Peasants Union announced lists of landholders marked for expropriation, and began measuring off parcels. Infuriated small farmers, swinging machetes, seized police headquarters in the village of San José Arada, wounding two cops. In Camotán, another band hacked a union leader to death and wounded five of his backers...
...document covered with a huge golden Harvard Seal, pronouncing him a professor in good standing, and an affidavit signed and sealed by the Secretary of State of Massachusetts declaring the first document "genuine." The twin seals, under which an array of visas was soon attached, never failed to dazzle frontier authorities...
...Guaranty. These signs were ominous enough, but for all of their menacing gestures the Russians stopped just short of the real provocation: shutting off all traffic to the 2,000,000 West Berliners, who occupy an island of freedom 100 miles beyond the Western frontier. Perhaps, by a sort of creeping blockade, they hoped to choke off Berlin inch by inch, in such a way that the West would have a hard time finding the crucial point to make a stand. At any rate, beneath the bluster, there was a canny control at work too-as if the Russians hoped...
...NATO, including the U.S. and Britain, would treat a threat to EDC as a threat to their own security. Since West Germany belongs to EDC but not to NATO, this meant an advance of the West's line of defense 200 miles farther east-from the Rhine frontier to the Elbe border of West Germany...