Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back from the Austrian frontier last week Benito Mussolini withdrew the 50,000 troops, the tanks and field guns that he sent to prevent an Austrian Nazi Putsch after the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6). Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Austrian Vice Chancellor, had just reported in Rome to Il Duce that Austria is now quiet. This week the new Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, is due in Italy to attend the annual war games as Premier Mussolini's guest. Last week the Italian troops which marched away from Austria did not march far. Most went back to their...
Across 1,000 miles of Asia's bandit-infested "Wild East" stretches the Chinese Eastern Railway, spanning Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo from frontier to frontier and serving as a short-cut for the Trans-Siberian Line between Moscow and Vladivostok. Japan has had a wolfish eye on C. E. R. ever since it was built by Imperial Russia, which retained a half interest in the road. This half interest Soviet Ambassador Yurenev offered last year to sell for 250,000,000 gold rubles (then $168,000,000). Japan insisted that the nominal buyer must be Manchukuo...
Along the Dutch-Belgian frontier the Germans had stretched an electrified barricade patrolled by sentries. Captain Landau in Holland had to work through that deadly fence to rebuild on the other side a British secret service almost from the ground...
...were three principal ways of getting messages over the Dutch border: 1) On dark nights "passeurs" would go through the wire wearing rubber gloves and rubber socks, dodging the sentries. 2 ) Bargemen from Rotterdam to Antwerp would find means of concealing dispatches. 3) Belgian peasants whose farms touched the frontier were sometimes induced to pick up and transmit papers secretly tossed over the wire at night...
...Vienna dynamic young Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Riidiger von Starhemberg remained totally unimpressed. "I know that the Austrian Legion has been moved back into Germany away from our frontier," said he, "but I know on the other hand from reliable reports from Germany that every preparation is being made so that they can be brought to the frontier again without loss of time when required. ... I am quite convinced that we shall have to face another Nazi Putsch, probably before the end of the year...