Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year Netherlands troops guarding the frontier with Germany were visited on St. Nicholas Day by the mitered Saint, bearing aloft his bishop's crook and preceded by capering Peter, who brought sugar cakes for the soldiers. Dutch cameramen snapped St. Nicholas peering through field glasses at cruising bombers outlined against the sky. Amid jollification, Saint and minion tasted the troops' pea soup, which gulping Peter pronounced "prachtig" ("swell...
Central Front. Russia's most potent threat to Finland came, not from the isthmus, but from four columns which penetrated the 485-mile frontier between Lake Laatokka and the Arctic Circle, striking westward at Finnish railheads and roadheads, trying to reach the Gulf of Bothnia. Last fortnight one of these columns was reported to have captured Kemijärvi and to be bearing down on Rovaniemi, which lies on Finland's Arctic Highway. Last week the Finns rushed troops north from the isthmus and in a surprise attack recaptured Salla, cutting this Russian column off from its base...
...same tactics worked at Suomussalmi, past which a Russian column was thrusting across Finland's narrowest part toward Uolu on the Gulf. In a four-day battle the Finns cut the roads leading from Suomussalmi church to the frontier, then stormed into Suomussalmi village, routed Russian tanks, and trapped a Russian force they estimated at 10,000. If the Finns could prevent this force from working in conjunction with the columns to the north and south, Russia's Bothnian threat would be ended and the lost columns could be starved, frozen or carved to death...
...miles of the Finnish-Norwegian frontier, while all along that same line the desperate Finns were battling to delay the swift Russian advance. The Russians had cut off Finland's only outlet to the Arctic Ocean, were holding the northern end of the Arctic Highway, and were again threatening the Finnish supply lines from Sweden by a swift southward thrust on the highway...
...FRANCISCO'S LITERARY FRONTIER-Franklin Walker-Knopf...