Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France's other Cabinet General, Minister of War Pétain. moved to strengthen France's land forces. For the first time since the War French reservists will be called to the colors this summer for two weeks training at frontier fortifications...
...Japanese schooner anchored just outside Vladivostok's heavily fortified harbor. The captain said he was a "scientific fisherman" and had had a little engine trouble. Frontier guards reported that he had high power radio sending sets aboard, that his schooner was engaged in espionage...
...March 9 Minton, Balch & Company brought out THE YELLOW BRIAR, by Patrick Slater, an auto-biographical novel with the Ontario countryside as a background. The author and his mother came over from Ireland during the potato famine and settled in Toronto when it was a booming frontier town. While there, he saw its public hangings and followed the plague cart which took his mother's dead body away. Later he went to the bush lands of upper Canada and became a part of the life of those stout-hearted Irish homesteaders...
...have hung so black for so long rolled back a little. There was even a pale hope that Austria might be able to preserve her independence without turning Nazi. U. S. correspondents in Munich reported that detachments of the threatening "Austrian Legion" of Nazis were being withdrawn from the frontier...
Start Something! Not since 1914 has there been such a massing of troops as ringed Austria last week (see map). Italy had 75,000 men at the frontier ready to move in an hour. Due north in Bavaria was the famed Austrian Legion of approximately 30,000 exiled Nazis ready to march back into Austria with weapons from German arsenals whenever Adolf Hitler should nod nis head. Along the Czechoslovak frontier approximately 35,000 men, with the heaviest siege guns in Central Europe, were ready for the first nation that started something. Viennese knew that the Czech frontier is only...