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Last week the Rev. Douglas Cedarleaf, 31, decided to take a hand. First, he preached a sermon, "Vandalism in Throop Street," to his Erie Chapel Presbyterian Church (white) congregation (which included the Strongs). Then he taught them the great Negro anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. And then he asked them to escort the Strongs home. Some 135 of the congregation's 175 did. Throop Street heard them coming: they were all singing the anthem. At the Strongs' doorstep they formed a circle. Curious neighbors leaning out of their windows saw the minister give the Strongs a Bible...
Since his break into print, Rugoff has spent lecherous leisure scanning letters from bobby-soxers of Manhattan and points west who prove through the Pythagorean theorem that Virtue Victorious will be our next national anthem...
Last March, Police Chief Colonel Filomeno Velazco suspected Aguirre Cámara of being editor of the famous underground newspaper Himno National (National Anthem). Arrested and imprisoned, Aguirre Cámara won his liberty by promising not to attack the Government without telling the police beforehand. Last month, astonished Police Chief Velazco got Aguirre Cámara's warning. Soon, wrote the cheeky ex-deputy, he would publish a scathing pamphlet. He would print it in Argentina. He would remain in the country "until I am convinced that the people do not want to be saved...
Justice Hope's decision (from which an appeal was unlikely) was based on Ontario laws requiring all public school students to sing the national anthem, all teachers to teach patriotism...
...General de Gaulle was well aware that internal politics are directly connected with foreign policy. Ever since liberation the French have been bursting spontaneously into the Marseillaise on streets and public squares. De Gaulle proposed that France should sing its national anthem on a wider stage to a bigger audience. On a swing around France last week he raised the question of France's role in Europe's affairs. In Lyons he said: France must be great. "She must be able to tell her friends: 'I am one of you, I am among the victors...