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Last week every Briton with a radio and the 3,000 odd who own television sets received much more at this service than they expected. In the pinkly flickering tubes of their televisors they could see King George stiffly standing before the Cenotaph in a Field Marshal's khaki-colored greatcoat, beyond him, the British Cabinet in funereal black, beyond them a double row of bluejackets rigidly at attention, behind them the windows of the Home Office where Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mother Mary watched the ceremony. Big Ben bonged eleven times and a sudden dramatic silence blanketed...
...planes droned overhead, the crowds heard 493 bands, saw 800 floats, gasped at a Negro Legionnaire who marched on two padded stumps cut off at the knee and another who kept up with the procession in a wheelchair. Typical sights: Chattanooga's Drum and Bugle Corps in old khaki trench uniforms, spattered with prefabricated mud; autos disguised as French locomotives and freight cars ("40 hommes, 8 chevaux") and Paris taxicabs; one-man bands; Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves with his Wife-Senator Dixie Bibb Graves; 30,000 paraders from Pennsylvania; 1,200 Legionnaires from Kentucky with dried tobacco...
Main Tent. Each day of the political circus featured a different attraction in the centre ring. Most impressive: The march-past on the mammoth Zeppelin Meadow of the Arbeitsdienst-Nazi compulsory labor battalions. Forty thousand lads in rough khaki, 3,000 stripped to the waist, goose stepped past the Realmleader, mirrored thousands of times on the silver-blue spades they carried on their shoulders. Most beautiful: 22,000 alternate Nazi ranks, carrying flaming torches, wending their slow tramp along the search-lit walls of the turreted medieval city. Most spectacular: 140,000 brown-uniformed Storm Troopers lined up column upon...
...appearing of the Dictator. Joseph Stalin ordered the traditional celebration of Youth Day in the Red Square, but a furious downpour of rain forced the Dictator to postpone it for six days when roughly a million youths, calling themselves the "Stalinist generation," paraded before the khaki-coated, pipe-smoking Dictator. Meanwhile Stalin had his Government triumphantly announce that...
Generals in khaki, read a 40-minute paper on the State of the Nation...