Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With characteristic Canadian reserve, Alberta has suppressed most of the roistering atmosphere of a traditional oil boom. But the physical evidence of a changing frontier is visible everywhere. In Edmonton, the provincial capital, steel skeletons of new skyscrapers rise against a background of frame buildings, false-fronted stores and old log houses. The city's population, up from 113,000 to 160,000 since 1946, has spread out beyond the reach of existing sidewalks, plumbing and telephone lines...
...China, with the weak theocratic government of Tibet under its thumb, now controls all the major passes through the towering Himalayas into India and Nepal. Travelers back in India from Tibet last week said that well-armed Chinese troops along the 2,000-mile frontier are entrenched in market towns, have replaced Indian rupees with Chinese currency, are interfering with traders and religious pilgrims, who for centuries have crossed and recrossed the Indo-Tibetan border without hindrance...
Although the worried Indian army is strengthening its own frontier posts, Prime Minister Nehru is determined not to be worried by this growing Red threat on his back porch. His official stand: since Red China has promised to respect India's "cultural, commercial and political interests" in Tibet, there is nothing to be alarmed about...
...Throughout the period of his command, MacArthur urged the bombing of Rashin. On Aug. 12, 1950 he did bomb it, but further attacks on Rashin were forbidden by Washington. "It was a question of the risk involved," Secretary Marshall explained later, "in an operation so close to the Soviet frontier...
Rashin had not been hit by U.N. planes for more than a year. Since Aug. 12, 1950 Rashin had been forbidden to U.N. flyers because it is only 17 miles from the narrow strip of Soviet-Korean frontier (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Rashin had grown fat on its year of immunity...