Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the United Kingdom newsreels showing Adolf Hitler's troops rupturing the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by marching into the Rhineland were received with murmurs of approval, applause and even cheers as last week opened. Newsreels of Poilus marching up to defend the French frontier were almost everywhere received by Britons in silence. Inquiring reporters for Baron Beaverbrook stopped 5,000 citizens to ask: "Do you on the whole prefer the French or the Germans?" The answer, blazoned next day in London's Daily Express, was that 21% had no preference, 24% preferred the French...
...directly nor indirectly concerned. We can say without fear of contradiction that we have kept the Locarno Treaty not only in letter but in spirit. We have been absolutely loyal and clear, and the rights on our side are 100%. The existence of a demilitarized zone on our German frontier constituted protection behind which we felt less exposed. If it is true that no country in the world today is able to assure its own security alone, it is even surer when applied to a small nation, for which respect for international law assumes capital importance...
...Hoare, to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia by the Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week Sir Robert was busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian-Belgian round-robin agreement, under the terms of which Britain would specifically agree to FIGHT at any breaching of the Locarno Rhineland frontier...
Baldwin's Frontier. To hard-headed Europeans one fact dominated all others: Stanley Baldwin was still spending $160,000 per day to keep British ships within striking distance of League-defying Italy but not one farthing to put British ships within range of League-defying Germany. Yet it was Mr. Baldwin who not two years ago solemnly declared that, for defensive purposes, Britain's frontier is now the Rhine (TIME, Aug. 13, 1934). In all parts of Germany correspondents reported Nazis spontaneously boasting with broad grins: "Well we have crossed the 'British frontier' of Herr Baldwin...
...frontier line dividing Germany from France & Belgium is demilitarized anew for an equal depth on both sides. The French dig up out of the ground along the frontier a section of their $300,000,000 concrete and steel forts with heavy gun emplacements, the Belgians similarly abolish their frontier forts, and the Germans merely march out of the Rhineland the troops they last week marched in with such rejoicings...