Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, refused to surrender his passenger. His argument: Eisler a) had paid for his passage, b) had broken no British laws, c) was under the protection of the Polish flag, and d) had been assured the right of asylum when the ship reached Communist-dominated Poland. Faced with these arguments, the boarding party retreated. Three hours later it was back., This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S. State Department. Its gist: the U.S. might seize the vessel...
...bright moon to welcome the first motor traffic from the free West. That honor went to U.S. correspondents, who staged a pressmen's circus, racing their cars along the Autobahn (and into the headlines back home). Next day was a school holiday, and the black, red & gold flag of the old Weimar Republic, now the banner of the new West German state, flew everywhere-20,000 flags had been shipped in by Allied airlift. The airlift planes still droned on, piling up supplies for any other rainy days that might lie ahead. Berlin's feeling about...
...flag-draped platform in Philadelphia, a white-bearded man in plug hat and frock coat stood towering over President Ulysses S. Grant. The visitor was Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, who had come north on the British liner Hevelius for the U.S.'s centennial exposition. When a technician explained to him that the newly invented Corliss steam engine in Machinery Hall made some 36 revolutions a minute, Dom Pedro cracked: "That is better than our Latin American republics...
...Order & Progress." As an army officer, Dutra was part of an institution which has occupied a peculiar position in Brazilian politics. The army has always identified itself with the motto on Brazil's flag: "Order and Progress." This has meant, by & large, an affinity for the democracy which has characterized the country's modern history. It was the army which took over the republican movement from the disgruntled ex-slaveholders and overthrew Dom Pedro II in 1889. The first two Presidents under the republic's U.S.-patterned constitution were army officers. After that, under a long line...
...battle of Berlin, there are plenty of heroes to adorn them. In their weary, often grumbling and fumbling way, it was Berlin's plain people who won the battle-the people who met in huge rallies to hurl their defiance from the shadow of the Red-flag-topped Brandenburger Tor, the people who turned out in bitter cold last December to vote a solid no to the Communists, the people who cut down their trees rather than accept Russia's favors. Without them, the West, for all its bold determination and its roaring C-54s, would have lost...