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...wife and two children. There were 150 other children, 106 of them under ten. In the strange, fear-ridden, hope-ridden atmosphere of refugee ships, compounded of anxiety, relief, tension, they waited, living until their voyage's end under the terrible shadow of the red & black swastika ensign that flew from the stern...
...bevy of Ministers, Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, Sir Samuel Hoare, lined up to say goodby. The great white liner provided for the King's conveyance-Canadian Pacific's 25-year-old Empress of Australia, formerly the German Tirpitz-the spoils of a victorious war, flew the white ensign of the Royal Navy, the yellow-&-red Admiralty flag, the red, blue & gold royal standard bearing the arms of the United Kingdom...
Student. Born in Munich in 1900, the son of a Catholic schoolteacher, he became an ensign-bearer in the Eleventh Bavarian Infantry Regiment at 17, but saw no active service at the World War front. The War over, he joined Fhrer Hitler's struggling German Labor Party at 19, was noted more for his regular attendance at Munich beer-hall powwows than for any great forcefulness. To his parents he was a problem child; in his Party he had the reputation of a hellraiser. In the famed-and abortive-beer-hall Putsch of 1923 he marched along with...
RAPHAEL SEMMES JR. Ensign, U. S. Navy U. S. S. Louisville San Francisco, Calif...
This enormous ensign, first unfurled on their building on Armistice Day, November...