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...Managua's sun-baked plaza, cadets from the military academy paraded one day last week in spotless white uniforms. Bands tooted the national anthem and the drums beat out a salute as President Victor Roman y Reyes and his boss and nephew, General Anastasio Somoza, drove down from their hilltop palaces in bulletproof sedans...
...Communist domination had taught Michael's subjects to release their feelings, if any, in private. So as Michael packed his bags, many a Rumanian wept-at home. The few who cared to join the perfunctory demonstrations celebrating the new republic were equally embarrassed. As Rumania's national anthem begins with the words "Long live our noble King," they had to make do with the Internationale...
State musicians in classical court dress played the sonorous "drum song" and happy throngs chanted the plaintive national anthem: "Until the end of time, this is our land...
...love for England was intense-"such a love as led him in afterlife habitually to make a demand-which struck many of his English acquaintances as a sign of insanity-that any quiet social evening he spent with his friends should end with the singing of the national anthem...
...audience in the crowded old Caracas Municipal Theater began to clap and whistle. At 9:45 the red curtain finally went up. Tall, mustachioed old Maestro Vicente Emilio Sojo bowed from the podium, turned and led his 76 musicians in Hail the Brave People, Venezuela's national anthem. The first concert of the revitalized Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela (founded 1930) was off to a trumpeting start...