Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty miles from Aduwa, at the frontier, the sound of those bombs reached Italian troops already on the march. In the darkness, long before the bombers had left their Asmara base, white-bearded old General de Bono, commander-in-chief, had gone with his chief-of-staff, General Melchiade Gabba, and other staff officers to a cleared mountain top from which they could have an unobstructed view of the frontier river, the Mareb, and the rude camel tracks leading up to the mountains and Aduwa...
Whatever may happen in the backfield, the forward line's changes are announced as definite. Kelly and Dubiel will once more be the ends and Jim Gaffney will start at left guard. Aside from those three the whole frontier will be changed...
With General Goring, who is also Premier of Prussia and German Air Minister, attending to Poland and Hungary, Realmleader Hitler himself attended to Lithuania last week. This new Republic seized Memel from beaten Germany after the War. The old frontier between Tsarist Russia and Kaiserish Germany ran along the edge of Memel through what is now Lithuania. Last week the 80,000 Memelanders were to elect 29 Deputies to the pigmy Parliament of their minuscule semi-autonomous Territory. Nothing was at stake except German prestige, for Adolf Hitler had resolved that the 1932 Memel election record in which about...
Further pressure on Memelanders (mostly farmers and fishermen) has been much exerted by Memel Germany, produce, which by used closing to the buy Fatherland's frontier to Lithuania and therefore to Memel. Still honking in the territory are 100,000 geese which other wise would have been bought and eaten by Germans. Incessantly Nazis suggest to Memelanders that they will be economically ruined unless they become part of Germany and that the first step toward that is "Vote German...
...would be," James ( "Jimmie") Donahue, Woolworth 5?-&-10? heir, cousin of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz. stepped onto a balcony of his Rome hotel, shouted "Viva Ethiopia " squirted a syphon of soda water at a group of young Fascists. Effect: two Government agents presently escorted Playboy Donahue to the Italian frontier...