Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense all this fitted well with tradition. Few processes of U.S. government move with such glacial ponderousness as those involved in the creation of a new state. Alaskans, who had voted 3-to-2 to add a 49th star to the flag, were one step-though perhaps it was a short step-closer to their goal...
...Marx's Day, at the beginning of Mary's Month, the soft blue wisteria gushed from every wall in Rome, and the iris raised blue-cauled heads. But it was the lush red cineraria and the harsh Red Flag that really bloomed in Rome. By May Day, 1947, the worldwide Communist Party had much to celebrate. Its latest and in some ways its most remarkable victory was in Sicily's free and fair elections, where the Communists last week became the island's leading party, and thus consolidated their position as the strongest political force...
Down the Red Flag. March 1944 is the beginning of Togliatti's experiment in "respectable" revolution. Mussolini's regime is dead, and the Italian people squirm to the light-dazed, vaguely jubilant, cheering the U.S. as liberator. This is a unique opportunity for the West to establish a healthy Italian democracy. But the Communists see an opportunity, too. Many of them want to start a revolution immediately. Under the heavy March rains, Italy's mud seems like the very clay of history...
...grey sky, flying in from Algiers, after an 18-year exile, appears Palmiro Togliatti-and proceeds to mold, the clay. He announces that there must be no antiroyalist agitation. It might even be advisable to roll up the Red Flag for a while, in favor of the national green, white & red. Moscow recognizes Marshal Ba-doglio's royalist government and Palmiro Togliatti enters it as Minister without Portfolio. Less ductile Communists, who still want to rush to the barricades, are pushed out of the party, many by the "respectable" device of being refused support by the Communist machine...
...Cities. One way to tell how the battle is going is to list the cities the Communists have taken over through their victories in municipal elections. Such cities as Sofia and Bucharest and Belgrade have always seemed to be on the other side of the moon. But the Red Flag flies also over cities that hold the West's most poignant memories: Virgil's Mantua, Ambrose's Milan, Ferrara. the city of Lucrezia Borgia- a woman the Communists would have appreciated: learned and turbulent Bologna, Dante's soft symmetrical Florence; Dandolo's capitalist Venice...