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...totally unexpected move, the American Student Defense League last night merged with the Committee for Militant Aid to Britain after dissolving itself as an individual, independent organization. The combined societies will have for their new motto that "the United States extend to the enemies of totalitarianism, especially the British Commonwealth of Nations, all the aid which may be necessary to insure the defeat of the totalitarian states...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Defense League Merges With Militant Aid Committee | 3/12/1941 | See Source »

...dollar devaluation: "The motto 'In God We Trust' on the dollar should be changed to 'I Hope That My Redeemer Liveth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Campbell Is Coming | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...Sent a message recalling the old motto of the First French Republic, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," to Henri Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France, in returning a New Year's greeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Act | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...good a thing for totalitarianism to miss. Instead of the Scouts' motto, "Be Prepared." Italy's Balilla leaders preached: "Believe, Obey, Fight"; instead of democracy, "Mussolini is always right." Naziism began its youth organizations with a will, started pumping them full of fine Nazi phrases: "There is no greater honor than death for the Führer," "Command and we follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Builder of Empires | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

Under the pavement of bomb-battered St. Paul's Cathedral this week, the skull & bones of ironic John Donne might have leaned backward with a lipless grin. After some 300 years, Ernest Hemingway's best-selling novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (whose title and magnificent motto are by John Donne), had made Preacher-Poet Donne a bestseller. U. S. customers could not buy a volume of Donne's works for love or money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: John Donne, O. P. | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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