Word: resistive
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...they loved France better than Hitler but Hitler better than Blum. The best officer Habe knew-a Colonel de Buissy, who had served in the Foreign Legion-was sent home. His superiors felt that he took the war much too seriously. Said one, contemptuously: "He wanted to resist at any cost...
...assure you that the terms you use have a very positive meaning for me also . . . but do those conceptions sufficiently indicate the distance between us and Hitler? Must we not make the gulf much wider? Ought not our opposition to him to be genuinely Christian? . . . Our resistance to Hitler will be built on a really sure foundation only when we resist him unequivocally in the name of peculiarly Christian truth, unequivocally in the name of Jesus Christ...
...quieter attack on Henderson was under way by the Republican National Committee. Its research division circulated (among Republican members of the Banking & Currency Committee) a confidential study which blistered Leon's britches: "Table-thumping and bellowing tactics. . . . Cannot resist the use of invective . . . capricious actions . . . anti-business views." Gist of the study: a price bill is necessary but it should: 1) clearly define and limit its powers; 2) counteract "the tacit encouragement of the Administration in wage increases"; 3) give power not to Henderson but to someone who "merits the confidence of business...
...warned him that France must send no aid to Germany if she wants sympathy from the U.S. Specifically, Vichy was told not to let the Nazis move into Dakar. But if the U.S. decides it must take over Martinique, the French will be expected to surrender the island without resistance. (If they should resist, the U.S. will probably just ring the island with cruisers, wait for the French to surrender, without wasting either American or Vichyfrench lives in an attack...
...Sultry, brunette-voiced Singer Houston's inimitable way with Brazil's suave, tropical folk melodies makes this the album of the month. Her famed, tongue-twisting Dansa de cabodo (Frog Song) and primitive, wailing Berimbao (about a dolphin who transformed itself into a youth no virgin could resist) are heady as Negrita...