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...Justice John Andrew Hope dismissed the suit. Said he: "I can conceive of no more certain way of creating . . . friction amongst the pupils of a class as to their love of country, and their duty to their country, than by permitting haphazard compliance with the singing of the national anthem...
...telegraphs ceased to function. Crowds tore down pictures of Hitler, made bonfires of Nazi posters, books and pamphlets. Barricades appeared along with the flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then the frantic Germans declared that they would call in bombers to destroy the city. But the demonstrators kept up their ominous preview of what the Germans might expect as the tide rose in Europe...
...Gissimo, preceding Henry Wallace, kept right on walking. A military aide rushed up, whispered in the Gissimo's ear. The Gissimo continued toward the car. The aide tried again. This time the Gissimo heard, came stiffly to attention while the band finished the last strains of the U.S. anthem. Newsmen were handed a mimeographed statement: Mr. Wallace hoped the long (and disputable) Sino-Soviet border would be as peaceful as the U.S.-Canadian boundary...
...papers, Captain Joseph Patterson's huge New York Daily News had unkind words to say last week about the U.S. national anthem. The reasons the Daily News advanced for retiring The Star-Spangled Banner were, however, characteristically ambiguous...
These birds wore the uniform of our country, some with gold eagles, some with just one, and they arrived in a cavalcade of motor cars. When the band played the national anthem we were at attention facing them. Some of them just kept on smoking, one sat on the fender of his car, a dozen or more took their caps off civilian style...