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...should like to add one thing. Never in my parents' home . . . did I hear one word or experience one act which welcomed or promoted any war at any place or at any time. The symbol of our house does not depict a cannon, but three interlocked wheels, emblem of peaceful trade...
...Louisiana, a hotbed of Dixiecrat rebellion four years ago, the Democratic State Central Committee last week voted 77-9 to put the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the ballot under the rooster symbol, traditional emblem of the Democratic Party. The surrender was not unconditional: the committee told Louisiana citizens that they could vote for Eisenhower in November and still remain Democrats in good standing. It also repudiated the national platform planks dealing with civil rights, FEPC and Senate cloture...
...July 7 issue and your campaign of 1777 map: May I suggest that your research department strike its flag? The emblem used for Burgoyne's successes is the British Union flag of 1801. Even if Gentleman Johnny did anticipate by 24 years the addition of St. Patrick's cross to his flag, wasn't it the old Red Ensign (1707-1801) that British troops carried throughout the Revolution? . . . And your use of the so-called Betsy Ross flag here is also open to question. Careless and over-imaginative historians have ascribed many erroneous displays of this flag...
...every city and hamlet the people celebrated the new day of independence* with music, oratory, parades. In front of the Capitol in San Juan, oratory-loving Governor Luis Mufios Marin, the driving force in the making of the new constitution, looked up at the two banners flying together. "This emblem of the smallest country in the hemisphere alongside that of the U.S.," he said, "means that the two nations, as well as the two peoples, are of equal dignity...
...salute boomed in welcome from the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle, Queen Elizabeth arrived in Scotland's capital for her first visit since her accession. After inspecting Edinburgh's Royal Company of Archers, she was presented by its captain, the Duke of Buccleuch, with the company's emblem, done up as a brooch of three golden arrows with a diamond thistle. Unable to accompany the royal entourage; the Duke of Edinburgh, laid low in Buckingham Palace by an attack of jaundice in the wake of a feverish cold...