Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gaunt, shy Swede, the son of a frontier family, George Norlin put himself through college and became a great Greek scholar. He also became one of the strong men of U. S. education. In 40 years at Colorado, 20 as its president, he made it the best university between the Middle West and the Pacific Coast. In the process he faced down the Ku Klux Klan and many another foe of academic freedom. Few years ago he frightened his friends by defying Adolf Hitler in his own backyard. As a visiting lecturer in Berlin, he persisted in championing democracy despite...
...accompanying the new Ambassador were loudly trumpeted as a "military commission." The fright: more evidence that Joseph Stalin was getting set to work with Germany if Poland was easily overrun. >Nobody paid much attention when Rumania rejoiced at Italy's neutrality, set to work strengthening her Eastern frontier, discussed a non-aggression pact with Hungary...
...more important, of course, were those 4,000,000 assistants who were the hope and sinew of General Smigly-Rydz's defense: the standing army of 18,000 officers, 37,000 noncoms, 211,000 privates, 27,000 frontier defense corps (Soviet border), 29,000 State police (on a military basis); the 1,500,000 trained reserves, some of whom are poorly equipped; the 2,000,000 untrained, undernourished conscripts; the 6,000 sailors; the 3,950,000 horses; the inadequate 28,000 motor vehicles; the 10,000 pilots, machine gunners, mechanics of the air force...
Emotionally most of the northern neutrals sympathized with the Allies. In Stockholm sentiment was frankly pro-British. The Netherlands, fearful of Germany, prayed, guarded its frontiers, laid in food supplies, was ready to flood the lowlands if the worst came. (Germany, also fearful, had electrified the barbed wire on its side of the frontier to catch would-be deserters.) In Brussels motion picture audiences cheered pictures of French and British soldiers. Antwerp held air-raid drills and prepared for evacuation if necessary. Switzerland manned her passes. Nerves were on edge and "accidents" happened. Four bombs plumped into the Danish seaport...
...London Chamberlain reported to the House of Commons on his ultimatum: "No reply has been received. If the German Government should agree . . . His Majesty's Government would be willing to regard the position as being the same as it was before the German forces crossed the frontier...