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...notwithstanding the Churchill statement, there were signs that not all quarters of British officialdom found it easy to warm up to the Bolsheviks. BBC omitted The Internationale from its weekly program of anthems of Britain's allies, was swamped by protests from, public, press and Parliament. To a reporter, a BBC official said with historic detachment: "We shall certainly play one of the Russian anthems. The question is: what is the Russian anthem?" BBC compromised by playing a recording of a Red Air Force song, Plane, My Plane! Labor's Chief Whip Lord Strabolgi slyly reminded the House...
...good offices, hoping that at this time, of all times, the Americas would not get to fighting among themselves. But while statesmen took counsel together, 15,000 people marched through the streets of Quito, waving flags, stood bareheaded before the statue of Simon Bolivar and sang the Ecuadorian national anthem...
...thousand years, great masses of people in China are singing together. The lusty, patriotic songs they sing sound much like those of the Western world. Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Chinese Republic in 1912, stirred up many enthusiasms but not mass music. China did not get a national anthem until 1924, and that one never caught on. But the Chinese did pick up a Western round-Frère Jacques-to which they sang such sentiments as Down with the militarists, Down with the war lords, Down with oppression...
With 40,000 spectators shouting, and every radio in Switzerland tuned in, the all-star Swiss soccer team last week beat the German national eleven in Berne's municipal stadium, 2-to-1. An Italian refereed. No trouble occurred. While 6,000 Nazis chorused the German national anthem and the Horst Wessel Lied, 34,000 Swiss stood respectfully quiet. Then they broke-in French, German, Italian-into the Swiss Rufst du Mein Vaterland, which goes to the same tune as God Save the King. Here and there a tall, pale-eyed individual intoned the words of Britain...
...opinion, it should be deemed a patriotic duty ... to remain at attention during the playing of our wonderfully inspiring new national anthem...