Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers of France entered Spain up to this week, but some 6,000 Leftist soldiers fled over the mountainous Pyrenees frontier into France, and of these some 4,000 were promptly shipped by the French back by rail to Loyalist territory. From Barcelona the U. S. diplomatic mission moved 20 miles nearer France on the coast. Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin called for 100,000 fresh volunteers for the People's Army, and Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto no longer spoke of victory but tried to persuade the French that unless they sent help the methodical advance of Generalissimo Francisco...
Poliomyelitis has struck about 30% more frequently than the five-year average. So far the epidemic has been confined to the South. The number of cases is about 10% more than last year when the epidemic spread up the Mississippi Valley to Chicago, across the Niagara frontier from Toronto to Buffalo...
...along the Seine, shouting anti-Fascist slogans, and four Paris policemen were stabbed with knives. Soon afterward 3,000 leaders of Communist groups in all parts of France were summoned to Paris for a conference with French Red No. 1, Maurice Thorez. The 3,000 arrived shouting "Open the frontier to Spain!" and "Thorez in Power!" Orator Thorez instructed them to incite the French masses "against their enemies, both without and within...
Refugees and Grandees. Terrified Leftist citizens who made their way to the French frontier, hoping to be permitted to leave Spain, were being turned back meanwhile by Leftist guards. Perhaps because Anarchists were thought to have the best stomach for such work, the Barcelona Government sent the recently jailed Anarchist leaders, Rosique and Cot, up to the French frontier to hold it against all refugees. Meanwhile, the bombers over Barcelona began dropping leaflets: "SURRENDER, OR PERISH...
Arrests. The Vienna Nazi press jubilantly reported that thousands of deserted automobiles had piled up along the frontiers as Jews, Catholics and Schuschnigg supporters were caught trying to escape. Typical of the thoroughness with which Nazi adherents had prepared for "the day" was the fact that 24 hours after Nazification the Nazi guard at the remotest frontier post was armed with a fully tabulated, thumb-indexed book of many thousand names on the Nazi black list, which he checked against the passports of those wishing to cross. Most sensational arrest in Jewish financial circles was that of retired Banker Baron...