Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sedan, at the Siege of Paris, and-great moment in his life-at the proclamation of Wilhelm I as Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. Followed 40 years of peace. Hindenburg climbed slowly to a Major Generalship and was given command of the East Prussian frontier. This he decided would one day be a great battlefield. He painstakingly studied every inch of that desolate swampy land and became known as "the mad Old Man of the Lakes" and "General Mud." In 1911, 64 years old, he retired from the army, certain that war would never come...
...shipped from Berlin to Paris. Thereupon the German Government pays Schmitz A. G. $100.000: and Pierre et Cie pay the French Government $100,000. Obviously the eject of this procedure is that the German Government has paid $100,000 to the French Government, although no money whatever crossed the frontier...
...Encyclical Letter of His Holiness, Pius XI, by Divine Providence Pope"?thus last week began a document which was spirited out of the Papal State, past Italy's eagle-eyed frontier guards, and so to Paris. For this dramatic exploit the Holy See employed a young priest, modest, inconspicuous...
...best he could the young priest stowed them away, slipped with pounding heart out of the Vatican, penetrated Italy, rode demurely in a hot and rattling railway car for more than 24 hours, then faced grim but unsuspicious Fascist frontier guards who gave one scowling look at his Papal passport, let him go. After that it was easy for the young priest to carry his precious documents to their destination. Once in Paris, he turned them over to Catholic superiors who nodded approval when the young priest begged, "Please do not let the newspapers know my name...
...late afternoon when Pilot Hoiriis, barely able to hold the controls after 32 hours in the air, sighted an airport and landed-Krefeld, in Germany near the Holland frontier. He tumbled out of the plane and dozed where he lay while Hillig bustled to a telephone, called Copenhagen and learned of the great crowds that waited to lionize them at the airport. They must fly on! Valiantly Hoiriis pulled himself together and they did fly, but only as far as Bremen. Half-conscious Hoiriis put the plane down, fell asleep without a word and was carried to a hangar...