Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Their Majesties are the first reigning sovereigns to visit Berlin officially since the War, their reception last week included the lavish decking of Unter den Linden with much tall, upstanding greenery and many an Afghan & German flag. The famed Prince Albrecht Palace had been entirely renovated for their reception...
...Removal of 'In God We Trust' from coins and of the Cross from above the Flag...
This will be the first trip of the corps to this vicinity, since 1821, when a small group of future officers came to Boston to accept a flag. A note relating to this visit is still to be found in old files in Boston...
...opening of the World War. Upon that carriage had later lain the body of the British "Unknown Soldier" as it was borne to rest beneath the white Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last week the unique gun carriage bore not the unknown but the best known British soldier. On the flag which draped the coffin lay Earl Haig's sword, unsheathed, and beside it his Field Marshal's baton and massive white plumed...
Meanwhile the Beatissimus Pater, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pius XI, continues his pretensions to be the sovereign of a State by permitting the daily unfurling of the yellow and white flag of the Roman Church Temporal - a banner displayed even in the U. S., where few Protestants trouble to distinguish it from the crossed keys on a white field which is the standard of the Roman Church Spiritual. That "Rome" has indeed many of the attributes to a State was shown again, last week, when the Holy See concluded a diplomatic pact with that flourishing State Temporal, Czechoslovakia. (See below...