Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhine!" Action last week was possible largely because Mr. Baldwin took such fright at Germany's increasing air power that he proclaimed last year, "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). The scare thus started has since been etched deep into the British mind. The nation and the Cabinet were ripe last week for an elaborate dossier placed by M. Laval impressively upon the big oak table at No. 10 Downing St. This dossier of the French Secret Service and General Staff purported to reveal: 1) just how grossly Adolf Hitler has violated the Treaty...
Meanwhile the three skiers, their murder party over, had fled. Finding the frontier barrier closed to their car in the dead of night, they crossed into Germany on foot. But in Europe a good car is too valuable to be abandoned. At dawn they thriftily sent for their car, got it back well before the murder was discovered...
...Minute. Meanwhile French frontier guards were said to be admitting Saar Jews and other Saarlanders who fear Nazidom at a rate of one every 30 seconds. Most refugees told tales of terrorism which could not be checked. As soon as the plebiscite result was known, Saar Nazis rushed to non-Nazi Saar newsorgans, hung crépe upon the doors. Even the staffs of 100% Catholic papers fled pellmell. Most Saar police at once went Nazi, strove to keep their jobs by peaching on fellow policemen whom they claimed were non-Nazi. Of 120 police under suspicion about 30 were...
...protested to the League that the towns in which Italian and Abyssinian troops recently clashed were on Abyssinian soil (TIME, Dec. 24 et seq.) Mussolini now contends that the "Ualual Incident," a three-day pitched battle in which 30 Italians and 110 Abyssinians died, occurred on Italian soil, the frontier line never having been exactly drawn. With the telltale map whisked out of the way, the League Council sat down to hear from Italian Delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi more about Abyssinian "aggression.'' There was, for example, the preliminary incident at Gondar, when Abyssinians shot an Italian consulate guard...
...Mutual agreement upon final demarcation of the long-disputed African frontier between Italian Libya and French West Africa...