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...amnesty satisfied the Alsatians, who raised the tricolors they had lowered to half-staff in protest. But it simply touched off a fresh storm to the south, in the new village of Oradour. The villagers lowered their tricolor, removed from its place of honor the Croix de Guerre awarded by the government to mark Oradour's ordeal, dispatched an irate protest to President Vincent Auriol: "Oradour, which until now recalled Nazi brutality, will in the future be remembered as a symbol of unpunished crime...
...true it was, and gradually the realization settled on Britain's capital. Silence, broken only by the subdued march of traffic and the dismal tolling of church bells, took over. Union Jacks fluttered to half-staff. Shops and factories all over the nation closed down. The BBC canceled all remaining programs after its initial bulletin. Cinemas and theaters called off their shows. The stock market closed for the day. At Lloyd's, the famed Lutine Bell, historic herald of momentous news, clanged once, and all business ceased. Even London's famous burlesque house, Windmill Theatre, which boasts...
...Rome, the Soviet standard atop the Russian embassy on Janiculum Hill beat all other official flags, including even the British, to half-staff. In Cairo, where charred and blackened ruins stand in silent testimony to Egypt's hatred of all things British, King Farouk declared a 14-day period of public mourning for the dead sovereign. In India, whose republican government no longer recognizes the Crown, bazaars were closed and a national eleven-day period of mourning was proclaimed. In Dublin, a little Irish lady stood crying on a street corner as she read of the British King...
...while, Murry and Mansfield platonically polished each other's egos, but soon they were deeply in love and anxious to marry. Katherine's husband made difficulties about a divorce, and they could not actually marry until 1918. By then, the flag of love was flying half the time at half-staff. What was the trouble? This latest batch of Mansfield-to-Murry letters (two-thirds of them never before published) never explicitly tells, but some strong clues are spilled between the lines...
...felt few vibrations from life on the great outside-one of the few was the assassination of President Garfield. The flag was lowered to half-staff over the town's main store and people talked in hushes as Garfield lay dying. "It was thus," writes Herbert Hoover, "that I learned that some great man was at the helm of our country...