Word: farflung
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...reason of the Axis blackout of free institutions, the administration of national defense is an urgent problem, opening out new and difficult situations of many kinds arising from new forms of "total war." Unless an early and decisive defeat is inflicted upon the Axis Powers, we must contemplate farflung warfare, declared or undeclared, military, economic, diplomatic, of a new and total type, hitherto unfamiliar to mankind. This contest will involve a sweeping reorientation and reorganization of administrative practice in many directions by keen and energetic minds, many of whom will be administrators...
Last week loyal subjects glowed and grinned as they read the breezy and colloquial first messages of new Prime Minister Winston Churchill to His Majesty's farflung Governments down under and up top. Mr. Churchill, who fought as a youth in the Boer War and has taken the world for his apple all his life, whipped out a cable to South African Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts: It Is A Comfort To Feel That We Shall Be Together In This Hard And Long Trek, For I Know That You And The Government And The Peoples Of The Union...
Their support was chiefly moral. But more concrete help was on its way to Great Britain from her farflung Empire. Australia, which already had five divisions under arms, organized a sixth division of 20,000 men, named Major General Sir Thomas A. Blarney to command...
When he died insane in 1918, Cesar Ritz, onetime Swiss goatherd was the most famed hotelman in Europe, had given his name to 19 farflung hotels. In Manhattan last week arrived his widow, Madame Cesar Ritz, 72, who still helps run the Ritz in Paris. Mme Ritz had come to see the World's Fair, survey the latest American hotel methods, master the art of preparing ice cream sodas, which "we do so badly in Paris." She stayed a few days at the Waldorf, then moved on to the Ritz-Carlton...
...blood." Pius XI was at pains to send his closest collaborator on many missions, often by airplane-to Eucharistic Congresses in Buenos Aires in 1934 and Budapest in 1938, to Lisieux, France in 1935, to the U. S. on a transcontinental "vacation" tour in 1936.* Thanks to these farflung travels, the new Pope was known to immense numbers of people, Catholic and non-Catholic. The world saw in Pope Pius XII a Catholic linguist (he speaks nine tongues, most of them fluently); a Catholic diplomat, who would steer the Church's course with astuteness and delicacy; a Catholic scholar...