Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached Brussels last week still in pale grey plus fours, after an all night ride from Switzerland. There are problems he must face at once. Communists were threatening a general strike. The Flemish separatists, always a noisy group, were supposed to have marked pro-Nazi leanings. Belgium's frontier defenses cannot compare with the new steel and concrete chain of France, but all young Leopold could hear last week was the sound of guns, fired one every half hour, to mourn the death of his father...
...that will endanger my comrades in Austria," said he, "The hangman is busy enough as it is. . . . But if you must have a story of a romantic retreat, tell that of the 47 Republican defense corps men who fought their way all the way from Vienna to the Czechoslovak frontier and marched triumphantly across the border carrying their machine guns and rifles which they surrendered at the first village they entered...
...They have built 2,200 kilometres of main roads in these two years, either parallel to our borders or running from the interior to the frontier...
...have quite definite information that the Japanese have put 130,000 men in Manchuria, plus 110,000 or 115,000 troops of the Manchukuo Army and 12,000 Russian White Guards. . . . We have barred our frontier with a lock of steel and concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth. . . . We fear no comparison with an enemy in tanks and aviation...
...only natural that an IDEA which has deeply stirred and permeated the German nation would not halt at the frontier posts of a country which for centuries was an integral part of the German Empire." Two weeks late, Germany replied to Austria's plaintive note citing specific examples of German-inspired Nazi outrages in Austria. With a cavalier sweep wholly unsatisfactory to Vienna, Berlin abruptly denied all charges. Into steep-roofed Innsbruck the mobilized, armed Heimwehr marched, practically seizing control of the city. It was rumored that they had been ordered to do so to forestall a Nazi Putsch...