Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There would be speeches, flag-raising, planes in the morning sky, and the distant echoes of 21-gun salutes. Crack troops of the battle-seasoned Philippine Army of 40,000, which the U.S. returned to Philippine command June 30-after presenting it with $50 million worth of arms and equipment-would lead the big parade. On the ship-shaped platform, resolutely pointing to the future, General Douglas MacArthur, who had promised to return and did, would speak. Silver-haired Paul McNutt, the retiring U.S. High Commissioner and the first U.S. Ambassador to the Philippine Republic, would read the formal proclamation...
...Filipino who cared, the Filipino who both wanted his independence and was afraid of it, the main event would come when small, smart, energetic Manuel Acuna Roxas (rhymes with slow boss), 54, the first President of their first official Republic, would rise and have his say. Then the Filipino flag would come right...
...looked like a shoo-in for the Stassen camp. There was so much rejoicing that "Harold is home again," so much confidence in the prestige he had gained at the San Francisco Conference, so much faith in the appeal of the Stassen war record as Admiral Halsey's flag secretary that it seemed nothing could go wrong...
...when Kravchenko was born in the Ukraine, son of a railroad worker. After the 1917 revolution, he says, his father exclaimed joyfully: "Now people will be free. It was worth fighting for." But Father soon changed his mind, having "no stomach for dictatorship and terror . . . even under a red flag." Victor, however, joined the Communist Party in 1929. "It seemed to me the greatest event in my life. . . . I was dedicated forever to an ideal and a cause...
...Four prepared to sit down once more in the flag-bedecked Luxembourg Palace, a little good news filtered through the clouds...