Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Realism. M. Daladier's trip was not entirely spent in mere ceremonial. Tanks, artillery and soldiers were displayed for Tunisia's-and Italy's-benefit. Two hundred eighty miles southeast of Tunis and 65 miles from the Italian-held Libyan frontier is France's desert Maginot Line of barbed wire, small forts and pillboxes buried in sand dunes...
Nazi intervention in Africa is not very likely at present, Salvemini believes, but will become a reality on the day Hitler has rid himself of the "Russian menace." As soon as Germany can afford to remove its forces from the eastern frontier, "France-Italian relations will reach a critical point...
...Chiang Kai-shek spun across the map of China, fell to the Japanese a year ago last week. New China moved westward to Hankow and carried on. Two months ago advancing Japanese forces straddled both ends of the vital Canton-Hankow railway (completed in 1936) which skirted the western frontier of Chiang's original New China. Once again New China trekked westward-to a new place...
Those Iron Guards who fled from Rumania to Germany found a welcome not unlike that given to the Sudeten "refugees" in September. That Germany would threaten to invade Rumania was improbable, since the two have no common frontier. That Germany might foment a Nazi revolt in Rumania, under the slogan FIGHT AGAINST WORLD JEWRY, had become increasingly probable...
...Foreign Ministers of those two implacable enemies, France and Germany, signed last week in Paris a vaguely worded, three-article declaration in which the two countries: 1) pledged "pacific and good-neighborly relations"; 2) recognized the "frontier of their two countries as it is at present established"; 3) promised to consult together in case of international tension. The new pact was widely accepted as meaning: 1) that Germany in black & white renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine (which Adolf Hitler has verbally already done); 2) that France agreed not to interfere with Germany's political, economic drive...