Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japan, the U. S. embassy received many naive notes asking that the honorable diplomats release the honorable prisoners at once. In Sweden, some 6,000 workers idled. In Johannesburg, South Africa, a U. S. flag was incinerated on the steps of the Town Hall...
...Prime Minister of Egypt, leader of the Nationalistic Party, most potent figure of contemporary Egypt. Funeral. Under a blistering Af- rican sun, the Zaghlul funeral procession wended its way through the streets of Cairo to the Imam-Yhafel Mosque. At its head marched mournful bands, laborites with lazily wagging flags and banners. Next came political groups, army units, the coffin covered with a silk Egyptian flag on a gun carriage. Some 4,000 official mourners, a body of Freemasons and mounted police constituted the rear...
Berlin, a city that has long been accustomed to the defiance flung by thousands of black, white & red monarchist flags, waxed hot and cold at this decree. Fiery Royalists announced that the government was going too far. They argued that personal liberty had been infringed by the mandate, that it was monstrous to prevent good monarchist soldiers from waving their flag, under which many had fought and bled for their country...
Discussion grew tense when it was discovered that the imperial flag might not even be used at a military funeral and that wreaths might not be tied with black, white & red ribbons. Nor would monarchist ire be allayed by the sop that imperial uniforms might still be worn by veterans at anniversary reunions and at the private burial of comrades...
Crown. Anton Smetona, popular father of his country and the first and present President of the republic of Lithuania (founded 1918), politely, firmly, magnificently refused the offer of a golden crown last week. A group of tenacious monarchists raised the flag of royalism, which has been a dead emblem many years, because they felt that the country would prosper, as it did of old, under the sway of an autocrat and because they thought that the President, with themselves as his courtiers and advisors, could raise the standard of Lithuania to its highest eminence...