Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their first triumphant postwar conclave, the Witnesses cast off wartime tribulations. In Germany, their disdain for human authority had tumbled 6,000 of them into concentration camps. In the U.S., their religious scruples against saluting the flag had vexed mobs to tar & feather them and burn their homes. Over 4,000 had gone to jail for refusing either to serve in the armed forces or to be classified as conscientious objectors; Witnesses claimed they were all ministers of the gospel. But the Witnesses had thrived and multiplied a bit on a diet of rough treatment...
...more interested in facts than in symbols; and one cogent fact was that Jewish immigration was running at 10,000 a month as against a quota of 1,500. Determined to stop this, the British sent powerful naval and air forces to stop and search any ships, under any flag, suspected of carrying illegal immigrants.* London announced that intercepted Jewish refugees would be held on Cyprus, where a mile-square camp, doubly enclosed by barbed wire, has been set up near Famagusta...
...Trans World Airlines as vice president in charge of public relations went the youngest Rear Admiral of World War II, 43-year-old Harold B. Miller. Fitted out with flag rank when he became the Navy's Director of Public Relations in 1945, Annapolisman Miller has behind him 20 years of naval flying, four books on aviation. No armchair officer until he became the Navy's pressagent, able, handsome "Min" Miller squeaked through both the Akron and Macon disasters in the '30s, was both flying and deck officer before the Navy discovered that...
When the results were announced at the Battersea Town Hall, waiting crowds burst into The Red Flag...
...keep the red flag flying here...