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...Krassin left France without ever having received the custom-sanctioned honor of hearing the national anthem of his country played when he visited President Doumergue. For 50 days M. Rakovsky has been vowing that he would never call on M. le Président at all unless assured that the "Internationale" would blare from the Elysée at his approach...
With alarums, excursions and whoops London Reds staged an impassioned demonstration last week before Bow Street Police Court. Red flags were swished and flaunted, the Communist Anthem was chanted ferociously off key. Within the court, Britain's "war on Reds" (TIME, Oct. 26) was gathering cautious headway amid all this tumult. The noted Communists* arrested a fortnight ago were arraigned at a Magistrate's hearing, and Sir Travers Humphreys, acting for the director of Public Prosecutions, set forth the new policy of the Baldwin Government in resorting to stern measures against the Reds, as follows...
Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff, emphatic Russian, closed the concert with Tchaikowski's "1812 Overture," and as the strains of the "Marseillaise" and the Russian National anthem floated out in the final bars -Boom Boom! Boom!-siege guns they sounded-fired back stage and the smoke floated out over the audience. The multi-national multi-national multitude went mad applauding, and, of course, Conductor Sokoloff made a little speech...
Further Developments: 1) Oswald Mosely, wealthy Socialist baronet and M. P., husband of Lady Cynthia, daughter of Lord Curzon, 2) "Emperor" Cooke, incendiary Coal-Laborite, took little part in the debate, but caused a sensation by remaining seated while the national anthem was played...
...principal settlement of the island. Minister Berg read a notification of annexation declaring the archipelago to be Norwegian territory and subject to Norwegian law. Up went the Norwegian flag, sailors from the patrol boat Heimdal presented arms, the guns of the Heimdal boomed salutes, the people sang the national anthem and a prayer for Norway was offered. One Lassen of the Ministry of Justice became Prefect of the Territory...