Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rooming houses and likker stores were all sold out last Christmas and Friday night found the city's trees decorated in a Confederate flag motif. From many of these same trees hung nooses and signs saying, "For the first Damn Yankee who touches this flag...
...Crescent Flag. One focus of the trouble lies in the northwest. There, in the Ili valley where the flag of China should fly, a green flag with a yellow crescent moon and a five-pointed star has flown for nearly three years. The region contains about a million people (total Sinkiang population: about 4,000,000), mostly Moslem Turki farmers and Kazak horsemen who live in felt yurts (tents) and ride with rifles strapped on their backs. They are controlled by leaders trained and schooled in Russia. Behind the leaders is a well-equipped army of more than...
...routine cruise to "show the flag," the British warships Amphion and Contest steamed into the harbor of Santa Ana Island in the southern Solomons (which are under a British protectorate). On the beach the Britons saw a strange flag flying from a pole-a yellow field with vertical black stripes. The Amphion's pidgin-English interpreter asked the truculent islanders grouped around the flagpole what the flag stood for. It stood, said the natives, for "Martin Lo"-pidgin English for Marxian law. Communism had arrived among the atolls...
Please Do Not Disturb. When the representatives of 55 nations and some 1,787,436,000 people finally took their places in the Hall at Flushing Meadow, there would be 62 items on the agenda, ranging from the adoption of a U.N. flag to the question of global prostitution. There would be all the old headaches-Palestine, Greece, the Indians in South Africa, disarmament, the veto, the Balkans -and a few new ones...
Bulgarians blinked. Down Sofia's broad main street marched a military procession, preceded by a Greek flag and a color guard, six men in Evzone costume. Behind trooped 84 husky men & women singing Greek battle songs. But spectators were soon reassured that this was not an incipient Greek invasion. What they were watching was a move in the Communist play against Greece...