Word: emblemized
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...Berlin dense crowds of people thronged about the Reichstag. In other parts of the city few people jubilated; this was partly due to the fact that Constitution Day is not a public holiday. Flags were few, apparently because the celebration did not call for the monarchist emblem...
...Park occurred a clash between British Fascisti and Communists, involving some 2,000 persons, resulting in scores of more or less seriously damaged people and the wreckage of several private automobiles. The trouble started when the Fascisti, seeing a red flag, lost control of themselves and seized the insulting emblem, tearing it to pieces. They said they were pledged to tear down every red flag hoisted in London. The Evening News, antiCommunist, nevertheless scored the Fascisti, who are far from popular in London. Seeing a grave menace to the freedom of speech, the newspapers said...
...flag at present used ashore is the British Red Ensign with the Canadian arms in the fly; but, strictly speaking, this is the merchant marine flag. Several suggestions for the new emblem have been made...
Apparently, this is only an academic defeat; for not only are many republicans in favor of the old flag (chiefly to end interminable discussion of the flag question), but most Germans use it. It was considered certain that the old flag will sooner or later replace the republican emblem...
...Imperial Arch of the Brandenburg Gate, along the Wilhelmstrasse to the German Chancellery. In the first car was the grey-haired Field Marshal and the grey-haired Chancellor. Monarchist roars broke out on all sides, Monarchist flags were waved in seeming mockery of the black, red and gold emblem of the Republic fluttering from the Presidential car. At the Chancellery, the Field Marshal was forced to step out on to the balcony to acknowledge an ear-splitting ovation. Thus did Herr von Hindenburg enter Berlin for his Presidential inauguration...