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...Star-Spangled Banner celebrates the fact that, after a night of battle, the country's flag was still there. The Polish national anthem celebrates the fact that, after centuries of battle, the country is still there. This cautious, realistic anthem -"Poland is not yet lost"-could serve as the theme of this book. The Frozen Revolution undertakes to explain how it happened that Poland is still there and that its cause-vital to the West-is not yet lost...
...this day, parts of Canada still fly the British Union Jack, although the government is trying during the pageantry of the Queen's visit to spread the use of the Red Ensign, with its hard-to-discern Canadian shield. Canadians are unable to decide on a national anthem, and sing either God Save the Queen or O Canada...
...hymn (air by Thomas Preston, words by Godfrey Lias) was far from music to the ears of the Manchester Guardian, which huffed editorially: "This has a ring of 'confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks'-the words now rightly dropped from our national anthem." The Guardian was reminded of Sir John Squire's lines...
...music chatted warmly in French-mostly on the glories of age. Then Casals announced: "Now I will play for you." Chevalier swallowed, blinked, finally wept openly as his host hunched over his instrument and played The Song of the Birds, a Catalan folk melody and unofficial anthem of exiled Catalans that Casals performs at the end of every recital. Sobbed Maurice: "Quelle beaute, quelle beaute." With a flurry of farewells, and clutching an autographed photo ("To Maurice Chevalier, whom the world loves and admires for his art. simple and touching"), Chevalier hurried off to catch his plane...
Wiggles & Giggles. "Sound the sirens!" yelled Governor Quinn to his listener. "Close the schools and get going!" Delegate Burns hollered the same news into his phone, and instantly the palace in Honolulu was rocking with cheers. The throng swelled with a lusty singing of the Hawaiian anthem, Hawaii Ponoi, and the Star-Spangled Banner, and then fell silent in prayer. ("I'm a grown man," blubbered Quinn's administrative assistant, Bob Ellis, happily. "Why am I crying...