"Buffer state" Quotes from Famous Books
... the Red programme Ontario, and especially industrial Toronto, was regarded as the buffer state. But if the Soviet had succeeded in Winnipeg and further West, then the whole weight of that success marching upon Ontario, with Quebec bringing up the eastern end, would form a sort of nutcracker device from which Ontario would have had a hard time ... — The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
... Belgium will stand firm once again as the Buffer State of Civilisation. It will hold the gate ... — The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor
... support her, and to go through with this struggle until she gets it. To guess at the direction of the new line is not to express a British opinion, but to speculate upon the opinion of France. After the experience of Luxembourg and Belgium no one now dreams of a neutralised buffer State. What does not become French or Belgian of the Rhineland will remain German—for ever. That is perhaps conceivable, for example, of Strassburg and the low-lying parts of Alsace. I do not know enough ... — What is Coming? • H. G. Wells |