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...interest in the decisions reached at Munich should be the shift in Europe's balance of power, lessening respect for international law, lack of observance of treaties, collapse of the system of collective security. All in all, says Editor Armstrong, Mr. Chamberlain might better have adopted a motto implying reciprocity rather than appeasement...
...Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...
Nicole was an egoistic, adventurous, impressionable, plain-looking, book-loving French girl. Her motto, borrowed from a religious martyr, was Resist. "Resisting" many a Frenchman, Nicole at 18 went to Dublin to teach French in a language school. When she met Michael Brandon, handsome journalist, and budding diplomat, her resistance collapsed-against the universal warning of her friends, who called him arrogant, priggish, sadistic and a lot besides...
Married to Michael shortly before he sailed in 1913 to become British vice consul at Baltimore, she suddenly gave her motto a new focus. From then on she resisted her Protestant upbringing and Michael. It is this part of the story which is enough to scare male readers about literate wives and mistresses-a recital of love affairs, bedroom lyricism, plate throwing, tongue lashings, a self-righteous exposure of everything from Michael's lack of ambition to his dirty hairbrushes...
...test of a man is the fight he makes," is the motto that hangs in the San Francisco office of shy, chunky Banker Ashby Oliver Stewart. This is the sort of spirit to endear him to famed Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, currently facing the biggest fight of his career, result of an SEC crackdown charging Giannini's Transamerica Corp. with a false and misleading securities registration (TIME, Dec. 12). In 1933 Banker Stewart took over from "A. P." the Bankitaly Mortgage Co. Last week he took over a "large block of stock" and the chairmanship of Bancamerica-Blair, investment...