Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the possibility of the New England Intercollegiate soccer championship in the offing, a strong Harvard varsity soccer team will clash with Amherst this afternoon at Lord Jeffery's frontier settlement...
BUDAPEST--Hungary tonight ordered the mobilization of five military classes, bringing about 300,000 reservists under arms, as heavy fighting and bloodshed spread across the Czechoslovak frontier in areas which Hungary demands. The mobilization order was issued after the government was said to have informed Europe's big powers of possible "extreme measures" to bring the Czechs to terms...
...Duce, as the ally of the Führer, alone rated to be met at the frontier of Germany by the Chancellor. The Italian Premier is also the only one of the four chiefs who can speak English, German, French and Italian. Nobody needed to speak Czech. The Big Four, in accordance with the original concept of 1933, were about to constitute themselves the arbiters of Europe, excluding from their councils Czechoslovakia, the League and the Soviet Union. M. Daladier and Mr. Chamberlain, arriving separately by air, were met by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...German troops, ordered to swing across the frontier at three different points between Helfenberg and Finsterau at 2 p. m. precisely, had set their legs in motion on German soil at 1:58 p. m. by the wrist watch of their commander, Colonel General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. They entered first that part of the Bohemian Forest in which Schiller laid his play The Robbers. Since in these rustic parts there were no accommodations deemed suitable for high officers, these, on the first night, left their German troops sleeping in tents or peasant huts, themselves returned to sleep in hotels...
...Sudeten Mountains have been the traditional Austro-German frontier, he stated. Successive attempts at domination of Central Europe have never stamped out the small nationalities, and the Versailles Treaty merely recognized in Czechoslovakia what had always been an economic unit, the anti-Nazi professor continued...