Word: bande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think, contrary to TIME, Oct. 9, p. 28, that von Ribbentrop and his entourage recognized the Russian Air Force song, Higher and Higher quite well when it was played by the band of his Moscow honor guard. A song entitled Lied der Roten Flieger (Song of the Red Fliers) was launched by the Communists in Germany in the early 30's, with the chorus (last four lines...
...Jewish throne" was substituted for the program of protecting the Soviet Union: "Die Hakenkreuzfahne zum Himmel empor; wir stürzen den jüdischen Thron." The choice of Higher and Higher therefore was rather appropriate for the occasion, as hosts as well as guests could silently accompany the band with their own respective versions...
...detachment of Schutzstafel flaunted their authority, marching with Nazi banners and a band. This was more than the Czechs could bear. They rushed the guards, tore down their banner, scattered their ranks. A number were injured before the dutiful Czech police scattered the crowd, arresting several. Later a band of students surrounded a earful of Schutzstaffel officers and threatened them. The officers drew their pistols and fired into the air. When the day was over reports seeped even through the censor's office that four were dead, scores injured, thousands arrested...
...gloves, permitted anti-German cracks, digs at British home policy. Comic Tommy Handley twitted censorship with references to the Office of Twerps, the Ministry of Irritation, was a scream lampooning Hitler, whose mustache he once compared to a splash from a passing taxi. Most telling BBC Hitler-baiter : Band Waggon's little Arthur Askey, cooking up ingenious schemes for pestering a certain Mr. Nasty. Sample: Plotting to train 5,000 parrots to fly over old Nasty's House at Birdsgarden, singing "We'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal...
Tommy is on the right track. If he hangs onto Oliver and gets some men back into his band that know the meaning of swing and limits his own playing to lead solos, he'll start going up once more...