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...blocks away, 800 strikers and sympathizers gathered in a park. At about 8 o'clock they marched to the plant. A union loudspeaker blared the national anthem. The demonstrators passed the plant-once, as Morrow had agreed...
Bound up with the election was the fate of Belgium's exiled King Leopold III. All parties wanted the monarchy, but only the Catholics, fervently keynoting the Belgian anthem's refrain, "Le Roi, la loi, la liberté" had campaigned to have Leopold back. Brussels thought the reluctant left-wing parties would agree to recall him-to abdicate in favor of his 15-year-old heir, Prince Baudouin...
...When his amendment was defeated, 17440-82, his party joined in voting for the original measure, which will make 40% of the nation's industrial workers employes of the state. The session ended with all the delegates on their feet, singing the Internationale and the tragedy-encrusted anthem Jeszcze Polska Nie Zginela (Poland Is Not Yet Lost...
...have shared the Union Jack-we will always honor it. . . . But we have nothing peculiarly and indisputably our own ... as the symbol of this great nation of ours." Conservative George R. Pearkes plumped for the Red Ensign.* Conservative Thomas Church cheered for the British Union Jack: "One flag . . . one anthem, one throne, one Empire." So many had ideas that at session's end decision had to be deferred...
Francis Scott Key's The Star-Spangled Banner, which officially became the national anthem only 14 years ago, was given a going-over by Cinema Burlyboy Charles Bickford, who wanted Congress to take it all back, substitute America the Beautiful. Wrote he to his Senator: the old anthem is "a great fight song,"' but inappropriately bloody now that "we're entering an era of peace...