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Back in The Netherlands, the royal party sped to the white Soestdijk Palace east of Amsterdam. When they reached it, 5,000 Dutchmen were waiting in prickly silence. Then the crowd raised a mighty cheer and surged through the gates behind their limousines, singing the Dutch birthday anthem, "Long may she live, hip, hip, hurray...
With the "assassin" safely in jail, thanksgiving vigils were scheduled to celebrate the sparing once more of Nkrumah's life. At many of them, no doubt, the official anthem of the Ghana Young Pioneers would be sung: "Nkrumah never dies, never dies, never dies. He forever lives...
...curses at Hitler still ringing in Germany's ears, says Thielicke, "we still do not feel free to use a word like Vaterland uninhibitedly for fear of being misunderstood. And because we have a complex about it, many of us are even embarrassed by our national anthem - Deutschland uber Alles, though its original meaning was simply a child's declaration of love for his mother: 'You are the most beautiful land of all, with your castles, rivers and forests.'" Germans who have broken their relationships with their symbols, he adds, have also broken the relationship with...
Frightened or not, the officers make Pip doubt the sincerity of his motives, and he pivots on his Achilles' heel right into the officers' ranks. Played out to the anthem of God Save the Queen, the final scene is an ironic blend of parade-ground smartness and mocking bitterness. Pip has been broken, and the conscripts are to be shipped out as clerk fodder. Though Wesker probably intended something more hopeful, his play says in sum that you can't change the bloody upper classes-or the bloody lower classes either...
...Star protested that during a recent trip to Peking a Red army basketball team was victimized by "biased and incompetent" Chinese referees. Worse, the Soviet national anthem was not played, even though the Russians managed...