Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frenchmen are still submitting to the "peeping" of German planes coasting along their secretly built frontier defenses (TIME, May 6), but six Italian pursuit planes rocketed up last week when a German ship tried to peep at Benito Mussolini's so-called "Air Gibraltar," the great military airport on Italy's northern frontier near Sesto Calende...
Many an observer has pointed out that past U. S. depressions were relieved by mass migrations to the frontier, that the present depression is uniquely acute because that safety valve is gone. But there is one last U. S. frontier: Alaska. A few hundred discouraged miners who have turned to farming produce only a small portion of Alaska's food. The rest, $6,000,000 worth per year, is imported. Meantime, U. S. farmers plow under their crops, kill livestock to prevent a surplus. Last January, FERA officials put these facts together, produced their most ambitious rural rehabilitation scheme...
Afraid to trust loose-tongued civilian labor, the French General Staff last week had French and Senegalese soldiers at work completing la patrie's chain of super-secret frontier defense works among the forests of Alsace and the Moselle. Just as the new secrets seemed to be keeping nicely, pairs of Germans in light sport planes began coasting across the frontier, flying low over France's defenses and snapping photographs. When this had happened four times in the week, tempers snapped at the French General Staff and Germany received fair warning that any more peeping planes would...
First, anti-aircraft batteries would fire blank shots. If these were disregarded, French combat planes would take the air, surround the German peepers and try to shoo them back into Germany, "making every effort to avoid collision and in no case pursuing beyond the frontier...
...provoking incident. In Paris, German Air Minister Goring is feared capable of any madness, and Realmleader Hitler's head is rated hot. On orders from French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, himself a wartime aviator, the General Staff order was suspended and "for the present" French frontier guards will write down a description of each German peeping plane which will then be solemnly protested by French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet at Berlin while Nazis laugh up their brown sleeves...