Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confirm in the spirit and the letter my former speech, including the final allusion to the Italian flag on the Brenner Pass, which Stresemann can interpret as he will, but which Italians interpret in the sense that Italy will never submit to the violation of treaties of peace which guarantee their frontiers conquered at such a heavy price of blood...
Chairman Alvan Markle of the joint conference brought out a U. S. flag and waved it, counseling both sides to make peace for the sake of the country. Instead they voted to adjourn the negotiations subject to call by Mr. Markle or by either side...
Cling to Old Flag...
...these German students of today, while they still wear the colors that have been adopted as the official flag of Germany, cling politically to the old black-white-red of the Empire. They are mainly haters of Socialists, pacifists, and all internationalists; patriots and "reactionaries." At the annual students' congress held in Berlin in August of the present year, the republican students formed only a trifling majority...
Last week the throne of Great Britain fell. Fell likewise the English Constitution, history's most potent myth. The Houses of Parliament followed the example of those in Ottawa--they went up in flames. Mobs bearing the Red flag and singing the "International" possessed themselves of Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square. Hotels and public buildings were sacked. The aristocracy was obliterated, the proletariat emancipated. Cockney Lenins were supreme. The greatest cataclysm since the Black Plaguo, had wrecked the greatest empire since Caosar Augustus...