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That familiar trio of flags that hang on the west side of University Hall is a pretty fair indicator of unusual events occurring around Harvard. For instance, when the Duchess of Luxembourg visited last fall, a flurry of reds, blues, and purples made by the three flags of Uncle Sam, Luxembourg, and Harvard announced the approach of royalty...
...Kaiser's Pour le Mérite and Order of the Iron Cross First Class; Hitler's Grand Cross of the Order of the Iron Cross; Bulgaria's Order of St. Alexander; Yugoslavia's Order of the White Eagle; Luxembourg's Order of Adolphus of Nassau; Greece's Royal Order of the Redeemer; Italy's Order of St. Maurice & St. Lazare; Hungary's Cross of Merit; Finland's Order of the White Rose; Sweden's Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword; Denmark's Order of the Dannebrog...
While firing squads went to work, the furnace chimneys of southwest Luxembourg grew cold, the smoky "black country" grew bright again. Work stopped in steel mills. The strike spread countrywide...
Through the Nazi's solid wall of censorship word seeped last week to London that the strike kept on. And there were stories of sabotage. Fine sand, mixed somehow into lubricating oil, was scarring the bearings of Luxembourg's railroad engines. Railway signals misbehaved; the transport system went awry...
This week Charlotte-Aldegonde-Elise-Marie-Wilhelmine of Walram, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, said: "My heart breaks for them [the strikers] because I know hundreds will allow themselves to be shot rather than go back to work...