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...would ever authorize); and b) That all cruisers should be of 7,500 tons (which would suffice Great Britain, because she has naval bases for these small boats throughout the world, while the U. S. has not); 4) The justification of such a treaty to be that Britain has far-flung interests and trade routes requiring defense, whereas the U. S. is selfsupporting...
...newspapers had heard of no earthquake. A week passed and no far-flung correspondent cabled, radioed or telegraphed news of a disaster. But seismographs do not lie. There had been an earthquake and it had been violent...
College girls, high-school children, blind people, young Hebrew men and Negroes were among the 17 groups of contestants. They came from Boston; Harlem; Memphis, Tenn.; Derita, N. C.; Tulsa, Okla.; and many another far-flung spot...
...epithets, threats, and bombs on many a far-flung U. S. legation. The Department warned that extraordinary precautions would be wise (TIME, June 21), after several persons had been killed. Last week the ill-guided demonstrations came to a peak in Paris, as the day of death approaches the two Italians. Ten thousand Parisian workers in embattled assemblage decried the execution, maintaining as always, that the men are being made the victims of anti-radicalism. Meanwhile a stay of execution has been given in the light of new testimony and an alleged confession from a Spaniard...
...five centimes a day in a corps which has left the bones of its soldiers strewn in every quarter of the globe from Indo-China to Mexico? Flotsam recruits never explain their presence beneath the knapsack of the legionnaire, but it is not insignificant that while fighting for the far-flung Tri-color of France these romantic, scarred gentlemen rankers are protected by that banner from all extraditions. Glamorous traditions, adventure, protection...