Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tradition and Ideas. From Peter the Great, from Suvorov, who carried Russia's flag across the Alps, from Kutuzov, who beat Napoleon, the thread of traditional reverence for the cannon ran directly to Voronov. He was a product of Red training, but he took pride in being heir to Russia's rich martial tradition, and he tried to inspire his aides with this pride. He would sit for long hours bulked behind his desk -all 6 ft. 5 and 225 Ib. of him -quietly talking to his officers...
...carrying our national colors to the war fronts.. . . You have already shown you want to fight.* . . . I shall consider and determine the possibility that Mexico, in a valiant and virile manner, shall participate in the war-although actually it will only be a symbolic act to raise our flag on the battlefields...
German High Sea Fleet had mutinied when ordered to sea, into Berlin, where Karl Liebknecht had unfurled the red flag from the German Emperor's palace, down the Danube to Hungary, where gangs of Communist "Lenin boys" had killed a thousand citizens in three weeks, the solemn news of the victory that was really, defeat came through House's spies to the Conference. The dead still lay in the houses of Belgrade that the Austrians had shelled into ruins. Bonsal had walked un moved over the battlefields at Verdun, where many of the corpses were still unburied, "with...
...last war. . . . They know the hungry '30s. They are determined this is not going to happen to them. ... I tell this house if these men return to such conditions, their song will not be 'Land of Hope and Glory'; it may be the 'Red Flag...
...every plane," says Caldwell, "is in constant touch with the rest of the world by radio - but every railroad train crew is utterly isolated while in motion." To stop another train, trainmen still follow the "archaic practice" of sending a brakeman up the track with a lantern or flag...