Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goddess," 45-year-old Yoshika Nagaoka. During the war she had counseled many Japanese generals; now, as "Jiko-san" (Divine Light), she got financial support from Japanese aristocrats and militarists, averaged $16,000 a month in contributions. Over her temple in Kanazawa, Jiko-san flew the red "meatball" flag of Imperial Japan; to her followers she restated the basic State Shinto principles of hakko ichi-u-the whole world under Japan's Emperor. Jiko-san had included General Douglas MacArthur and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in her cabinet of lesser deities...
...Though the Supreme Court in 1943 reversed its previous decision, decided that refusal to take part in the flag ritual was no crime...
...Gideons were up against a tough customer in the meticulously creedless U.S. public school system, where religious training tends to consist of a daily, Shintoesque pledge to the flag...
...Government, said the Tribune, should nationalize the M.C.C. for the same reason that it had nationalized the coal mines: efficiency. It foresaw the day when players' wages would rise, trade-union officials would sit on the selection committee and the flag of the National Cricket Corp. would fly over M.C.C. headquarters. "Then England's team would really be England's team, and every player could feel that he was representing the entire country, not just a few private individuals...
...otherwise, but I yet have to see a local cop or for that matter anyone in this country, in Latin American countries or any country in the world, who's had any contact with U.S.A. citizens (officials or not), take a respectful attitude towards the U.S. crest, flag or a representative American citizen...