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...hours later, another patrol, headed by Lieut. William Robertson, reached the town of Torgau, on the Elbe, and came under heavy fire from across the river. Robertson broke into a pharmacy, liberated a bed sheet, some ink and Mercurochrome, and painted a crude U.S. flag. He climbed the tower of the town castle and hung his flag from the parapet. "Tovarish!" he shouted. "Amerikansky...
Germany had been cut in half. Robertson became a hero. He presented his homemade flag to Eisenhower four days later and was promoted on the spot. Kotzebue got nothing...
Perhaps it was too easy. Success fueled exaggerated visions of a grand, institutionalized United Europe. There was talk of a common flag, of joint Olympic sports teams, but nationalism stayed alive. In 1966, under severe pressure from French President Charles de Gaulle, the Community adopted a compromise allowing a partner country to cast a veto whenever it felt that a "vital national interest" was involved. Since then, the veto threat has been invoked several times on issues like farm prices and deregulation, sometimes slowing Community progress to a crawl. De Gaulle also pulled French forces out of NATO'S integrated...
...assertiveness in economic matters. In the East, during the Euromissile debate, Moscow rolled out accusations of West German "revanchism," a reference to Nazi territorial ambitions of old. Kohl's attempts at burnishing national symbols have also met with limited success: West Germans still do less anthem singing and flag flying than their neighbors. Says Hans Mayer, professor emeritus of literature at Tübingen University: "Hitler's nationalism so upset the stomachs of the Germans, particularly the older ones, that they are now keeping to a very strict diet. The only time they break it is for a German soccer team...
...commensurate with his country's flourishing democracy, strong support for NATO, and eminence as the non-Communist world's third-largest economic power. Internally, he intended to put a new gloss on national pride and patriotism by increased emphasis on symbols such as the red, black and gold national flag and more frequent playing of the national anthem...