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...symbolizes Life, and each member of the climbing party is tagged with a different nationality and a different motive for climbing, i.e., for living. The climbers: a warmhearted Italian girl (Valli), a war-weary American (Glenn Ford), an unreconstructed Nazi (Lloyd Bridges), a decadent Frenchman (Claude Rains), a philosophical Englishman (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a dutiful Swiss (Oscar Homolka). Before the peak comes into sight, they revert pretty much to national typecasting, and the plot maneuvers them to illustrate some simple homilies (e.g., Love conquers all; United we stand, divided we fall...
...Yugoslavia. Antonin Besse had laid down only one stipulation. He wanted both Frenchmen and Englishmen to be admitted, to study in an atmosphere of Anglo-French cooperation. To create that atmosphere, Oxford picked as St. Antony's first warden just the sort of independent-minded, well-educated Englishman Besse had learned to admire during the years he had traded and traveled all over the world. Slim, trim Frederick William Dampier Deakin...
Death on the Beach. His results made him an international figure. Although the American Revolution had begun when Cook sailed in 1776 on his third voyage, Benjamin Franklin passed the word to U.S. privateers to let the Englishman alone. The French Minister of Marine issued similar orders...
...irate Englishman wrote to the London Times protesting a rumor of the possible destruction of St. George's Church in Gravesend, where Pocahontas, savior of Captain John Smith and wife of John Rolfe, has been buried for more than 330 years: "When we are . . . doing our utmost to attract American visitors it seems singularly shortsighted to destroy a building which . . . [could] draw them to Gravesend in large numbers...
...Strange Life of Charles Waterton, by Richard Aldington. A fascinating study of a 19th Century Englishman whose passion for exploration and taxidermy was equaled by his antipathy for Protestants and Hanoverians (TIME...