Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought from Venezia Giulia the bodies of five U.S. flyers whose unarmed plane was shot down by Yugoslav fighters in America's first major postwar crisis. The crisis had passed, but the international tensions of which it was a peak continued. The five bodies, all crises past, lay flag-draped in the chapel of a Roman airport...
More & more people were drifting into banditry and into U Aung San's nationalist, loud, leftist Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. Last week, Aung San paraded through Rangoon in a jeep, waving a red flag, while thousands of ragged Burmans shouted: "Down with the Government!" Few Burmans really wanted violence, but a British officer estimated that there were enough weapons hidden in the country for a "long and bloody struggle." The crucial factor would be the size of next November's rice crop. Now Burmans chanted an old verse with new, ominous meaning...
Outside noisy nationalists started the first real political demonstration since Peron's election. Somebody climbed the Senate flagpole, lowered the flag to half-mast. Small bands roamed the streets shouting "Peron betrayed us." Police pinched 45, and cracked skulls as of old-this time nationalist skulls...
Boarding Party. Nevertheless the Ranger put aboard a crew that outnumbered the British party, got the engine started, cast off the British towlines, lowered the British flag, restored the Stars and Stripes, and ordered the British off the ship. They got off. According to an R.A.F. pilot who flew over the scene, "it looked like a hell of a battle going on down there." But the Elizabete's second officer said later that there were "only black looks and curses...
...rights of salvage date back to the Roman Empire, and the British are highly conscious of a tradition that has put thousands of pounds in sailors' pockets. Some British newspapers got excited: "Seize Prize Ship from Britons"-"Ministry Told Our Flag Hauled Down...