Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile hapless Ethiopia last week had made friends out of Yugoslavia and Italy, traditional foes. Needing grain to feed the Italian troops now embarking for Africa, Premier Benito Mussolini is placing huge grain orders in Yugoslavia. At the port and frontier city of Susak, where Italian and Yugoslav guards with fixed bayonets have glared at each other for years across barbed wire entanglements, suddenly last week Yugoslavian wheat began to pour in a golden tide onto Italian ships, paid for with Il Duce's pegged-to-gold lire...
...Government could save money, Old Takahashi pleaded with the fighting services to respond to long standing Soviet proposals for a Russo-Japanese peace pact which would permit the two great powers to demobilize nearly 2,000,000 troops which they now maintain to defend their common frontier. As further proof that Japan's economy is being severely pinched, Fiscal Wizard Takahashi pointed to recent declines in Japanese common stocks of even the most popular munitions companies...
...pocket, started to walk to Russia. He had no passport because to get one he would have had to swear an oath, which his religion forbade. Time & again German and Polish authorities had clapped him into jail, but Ernest Elmer Baker always got out and kept on walking. Soviet frontier guards had finally picked him up ragged and penniless near Minsk...
More serious was the charge that Liberian President Charles Dunbar Burgess King, along with his Vice President and several Cabinet members, had been profiting by having their "Frontier Guard'' raid villages of their Afro-African countrymen, torture women and chiefs, seize black bucks and sell them into slavery in French Gabun and Spanish Fernando Po. When a League of Nations Commission verified the practice. President King and his followers, on stern advice from Washington, resigned. Next Liberia, under President Edwin Barclay, defaulted on its loan of $2,250,000 from Harvey Firestone. In 1925 when rubber...
...lived all this while at No. 11 Downing St., next door to Prime Minister MacDonald. Holding the sinecure called Lord President of the Council, he has in fact made the National Government's most vital pronouncements, such as his famed "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week Mr. Baldwin, arrayed by his valet for audience with the King-Emperor, waited serenely while George V in Buckingham Palace had a nice long tea with James Ramsay MacDonald...