Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadianized version of the British merchant marine flag, the Red Ensign was first flown by Canadian merchant vessels in 1892, became Canada's "unofficial" flag...
...very end, Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker and his Conservatives fought bitterly against the maple-leaf flag, arguing that it was an affront to Mother Britain to replace the Red Ensign* that had flown for 19 years. Yet Pearson, head of an unsteady minority government desperately trying to unify Canada's divided English and French-speaking populations, persisted and finally had to shut off debate by invoking closure for the first time since...
...refused, raging: "When the Greeks produce gifts, we recognize what they mean." Pearson was barely audible above the Conservative cat calls, but he got out a line that will join him in the history books as the man who gave Canada its own emblem: 'This is a flag for the future...
...People's Flag is deepest...
There were no Socialist martyrs at Brighton, but Prime Minister Harold Wilson, just back from Washington, had a hard time keeping that old Red Flag flying and showing just the right hue. Wilson's major troubles are two: 1) the continuing, alarming economic crisis, and 2) opposition from his own left, or deep-red wing...