Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice. While France made every effort to persuade the former Loyalists to go back home, much of the news that filtered through the tightly censored French-Spanish frontier was not calculated to encourage mass reentry. Eighteen permanent tribunals were said to be working in Madrid trying Loyalists; there were said to be 500 arrests in Barcelona and Madrid daily; 2,000 awaited trials in Madrid alone; 688 have been executed; 20,-ooo were in a concentration camp near Alicante. Although there were accusations still outstanding against 1,000,000 persons in former Loyalist territory, the police appealed to the public...
...Russian republics showed only small increases: White Russia 12%; Ukraine 7%. Since the population of these border republics died by the million as a result of the Kremlin's starvation policy in 1932, was purged from 1933 to 1938, while whole frontier villages were transported for military reasons, observers wondered how census figures were able to show any increase...
...still popular in Germany. But his Iron Gustav has been quietly blacklisted. Joseph Ponten's seven-volume historical novel will trace the emigrations of German minorities abroad, especially in Russia. Edwin Erich Dwinger's The Last Horsemen describes the futile attempt of a gang of German frontier soldiers to invade Courland and make it a German province...
Friedrich Ekkehard is the author of Storm-Breed, whose down-at-the-mouth hero is revived by hearing Hitler speak "beautiful words, splendid words." Gottfried Rothacker's Frontier Village told of the pre-Munich yearnings of a Sudeten German to be reunited with the Reich. The book sold 60,000 copies...
...lecture tours in Maine (the arctic villages made him imagine he was exiled to Siberia), out in the frontier West, Emerson all but forgot the Concord saints. The men in the Maine train he found "independent, with sufficient manners and more manly force than most of the scholars he had known. (A pity, but why deny it?)" The Westerners were "grisly Esaus, full of dirty strength." Every forceful man in New England, he thought, had gone West. If his travels read like a drummer's timetable, his Abolition activities make lim look like a Balkan conspirator. Such behavior...