Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchant ship's passage, yet the idea of convoying was scarcely more than mentioned last week at Nyon. And even in the patrolled lanes, only those submarines attacking contrary to the 1930 London Treaty rules-i. e., those which do not rise to the surface, display their true flag and give a freighter's crew time to take to the boats-would be counted outlaw. "Russia," snorted Comrade Litvinoff just before Russia signed, "expected something strong and vigorous...
...marines now in China are worth 12,000 any other soldiers. Let them get our citizens out and then get the hell out themselves. . . . It's your crowd that's going to do the dying and the bleeding, not the Wall Street bunch of flag wavers...
...votes." Russia was responsible for the revolution: "Immediately after the triumph of the People's Front, the Russian Komintern . . . financed it with extraordinary amounts of money. . . . The work of destruction was realized to cries of 'Long Live Russia.' In the shadow of the international Communist flag . . . Russia has grafted herself onto the governmental army . . . she aimed . . . at implanting the Communist regime...
...Rightist Spain's stamps, which are simply labeled CORREOS (MAIL), some of which bear the portrait of Queen Isabella, were declared invalid by little Costa Rica this week, but are accepted in the rest of the postal union. *Besides the standard, pre-Revolution red-barred yellow flag of Spain and the flags of sympathetic Germany, Italy and Portugal, hotel? and public squares in Rightist Spain punctiliously display, to the astonishment of most patrons, the blue and white banner with the parrotlike bird of Guatemala...
America to the U. S. In the next seven years before he faced a 'Honduran firing squad, William Walker hoisted his own flag over "the independent Republic of Lower Californi," got himself elected President of Nicaragua, was involved in a fight with ten countries, became No. i U. S. soldier of fortune, alternately a hero, a joke and a villain. Told this week in The Filibuster, his story fills 350 large pages with an adventure story as absorbing, fast-moving and as incredible as any so far dug out of that period of sleazy brigandage below the Rio Grande...