Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many thousands of French people were refugees from the Frontier Zone in the last fortnight, many dead broke and in desperate need, that to get money to succor them the State announced a "national solidarity" tax to be collected after October 1 by taking 15% of all salaries public and private, annuities and even pensions. Refugee traffic through Paris-as refugees moved from one part of France to another-was at the rate of over 5,000 people per day. Since people have to carry baggage even in wartime and many of the refugees are old men, women or children...
...official declaration to Bucharest, declared that so far as Rumania is concerned Russia will remain "neutral." Many Rumanians believed that the speed with which the U. S. S. R. nipped in and took southern Poland before Germany could do so, thus keeping the Reich from getting a common frontier with Rumania, also nipped what may well have been German Nazi plans for surging into Rumania synchronously with the assassination of Premier Calinescu by Rumanian Fascists...
Today, with Europe blowing itself into a lost civilization, with the backlash of our own frontier expansion playing havoc with our economic traditions, free enterprise in the glorious world of business seems to have lost its glamor. The bulls and the bears that once roamed The Street have been harnessed. Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller are fast growing into legends of another age. And the eyes of the bewildered undergraduate look for security instead of pots of gold at the end of every rainbow of fantastic speculation...
...Stuff. Last week the British and French were again up against a Siegfried Stellung (see p. 28).* Four hundred and fifty miles long, it begins at the point where the Rhine enters The Netherlands, parallels the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg frontiers about eight miles behind the Our, Sauer and Moselle Rivers, then skirts the Saar to the French border, then turns west and south along the Rhine and through the Black Forest until it reaches the Swiss frontier at Lake of Constance (see map). It has been under construction for three years and at one time last spring half...
...whole frontier fortification is called Siegfried. Adolf Hitler named the part which faces France the Limes, for Limes Germanicus, the old Roman wall and earthworks that ran along the same position. But Limes Germanicus was built against the Germans, to keep the Teuton barbarians out of the Roman Empire...