Word: cenotaphs
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...sitting at an open window in Whitehall. . . . Just opposite me is the tall, pale, rather ghostly shape of the Cenotaph commemorating a million dead, many of them friends of mine, boys that I played with as a boy, men that might have been leaders now. Behind the great Government offices, the Home Office, the Colonial Office, the Treasury, is the heart of our great capital city; it is also historic ground. Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn near here. Elizabeth saw Shakespeare's plays and the masks of Ben Jonson here. Charles I was executed a few yards from where...
General de Gaulle and other "free Frenchmen" in London observed Bastille Day by laying a wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph in Whitehall. In France, July 14 was a day of mourning, as July 4 might be to the U. S. if it surrendered its freedom to a conqueror...
Deputies who were in the Army appeared in grey Hungarian campaign kit. Forty Nazi deputies, fresh from decorating Budapest's Cenotaph, rolled up to the House of Parliament in a parade of swastika-decked automobiles and clumped into the Chamber in high boots, black trousers and green shirts. Nazis who were outraged when a Jewish photographer took their picture were admonished by their leader that "propaganda comes before all." The Hungarian Life Party members, supporters of the Government, came dressed in all black uniforms. Sole mufti-clad deputy was outspoken Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky, who thinks the Government...
...Dressed in his uniform as Admiral of the Fleet, King George, accompanied by the Duke of Kent and members of the Cabinet, led the Empire's observance of Armistice Day with the traditional ceremony at Whitehall's Cenotaph. This year no madman's cry of "Stop all this hypocrisy. You are deliberately preparing for war," shattered the two-minute silence...
Last week every Briton with a radio and the 3,000 odd who own television sets received much more at this service than they expected. In the pinkly flickering tubes of their televisors they could see King George stiffly standing before the Cenotaph in a Field Marshal's khaki-colored greatcoat, beyond him, the British Cabinet in funereal black, beyond them a double row of bluejackets rigidly at attention, behind them the windows of the Home Office where Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mother Mary watched the ceremony. Big Ben bonged eleven times and a sudden dramatic silence blanketed...