Word: roundabout
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...nster. For three hundred years the history of our continent was substantially determined by England's effort, by roundabout means of balanced, mutually binding relations of power among the European States, to maintain and secure the necessary protection in the rear for big British aims in world politics. The traditional trend of British diplomacy . . . was deliberately aimed at preventing by all means the rise of any great European Power above the level of the general scale of magnitudes, and, if necessary, to crush it by military means.-Mein Kampf...
...symbolism, it makes its point well enough: Fascism and lawlessness cannot be destroyed through appeasement and law; they must be destroyed through force. But the play suffers badly from the prime weakness of symbolism and melodrama alike: a want of reality. There are a lot of people aboard the Roundabout, but not one of them talks, acts, or meets his Maker like a human being...
...they send cars they captured from the Poles the Russians seize these and claim they captured them. Investigator Kovacs added that the Nazis dare not send tank cars over this line, are "afraid that the oil will be kept in Russia." So they get oil from Rumania by a roundabout rail route through Hungary or up the Danube, now frozen. He was told that former Soviet Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin has said: "The help Germany will get from Russia is much smaller than the British or the Germans themselves think...
...Washington there were three schools of thought on the Far Eastern situation: 1) Messrs. Pittman, Schwellenbach, Izac, Coffee, Fish, et al.-proponents of an embargo against Japan; 2) a growing group, underwritten by Secretary Morgenthau and the Export-Import Bank, which favored the roundabout maneuver of giving China a $20,000,000 credit (China had asked for $75,000,000); and 3) a sudden cloud of alarmists, frightened mainly by Columnist Walter Lippmann, who thought the risk of war was growing by the minute, but that the U. S. should hopefully do nothing...
...Latvian air bases of Germany's pledged partner Russia. But if the Savoia-Marchettis did not cross German territory, then they arrived in Finland through some fourth dimension, for the British Intelligence Service pointed out that they did not take and were not given permission to take the roundabout route across the German-Allied western battle zone...