Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manchester Guardian announced in answer to a correspondent that the last verse of The Red Flag is now read on polite Socialist circles...
...Coolidge addressed a memorial meeting for the Confederate dead in the amphitheatre of Arlington cemetery, saying: "All about us sleep those of many different beliefs and many divergent actions. But America claims them all. Her flag floats over them. Her Government protects them. They all rest in the same divine peace...
...another refused the job, the latest being ex-Premier Sir Robert Borden of Canada. The British Government also called upon the Government of Northern Ireland to appoint their commissioner, but Premier Craig stoutly refused, declaring that "not a yard of our territory will be handed over to a foreign flag," and " if the frontier is attacked, we are entitled to the support of the British Army and Navy to protect our boundary...
Once, communists invaded the U. S. Consulate-General at Genoa and ordered the flag half-masted in deference to the funeral of a Red rioter. The Consul wired for instructions. The Ambassador replied in four words: "Keep the Flag flying." To a sophisticated generation this might seem melodramatic, affected. For Mr. Johnson it was the simple expression of a most passionate and unashamed patriotism. In the end it was the sneering young attaches and the hypercerebrated Latins who were stultified...
...Ruhr district, miners struck for a shorter day and more pay. Other strikes were reported from Saxony and Silesia. Berlin Bolsheviks urged the metal workers and railwaymen to join their Red brethren. Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), Berlin Communist journal, proclaimed a new wave of struggle against the hated capitalist system...