Word: swastikaed
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...hundred yards from President Roosevelt the swastika flew boldly under a fresh southeasterly wind. It flew from the stern of the German freighter Arauca, chased into Port Everglades, Fla. by a British cruiser soon after the outbreak of the war. For 15 months the Arauca had sported a swastika, but a small one. One day last week, when President Roosevelt's special train had pulled into the siding at the Port Everglades dock, the little swastika was replaced by a huge...
...advertised to the Bulgarian public, thousands of whom are violently anti-Nazi and pro-Russian, by squadrons of Nazi bombers and fighters roaring low over Sofia's roofs. Except for their ear-splitting drone the city was quiet, and along the sunny boulevards many shopkeepers unfurled the swastika. As the Nazi columns rolled into his capital, Boris of Bulgaria remained immured in his yellow palace and thought nervous thoughts. As the shrewder Balkan politicos remarked, it was all a foregone conclusion...
...music of war, helmeted storm troopers carrying swastika banners marched in and stood below the huge eagle. Finally Adolf Hitler came in - small, jerky, smiling, waving his salute. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels introduced...
...voortreker (pioneer) beard was an "outlander" or a traitor. A synagogue was dynamited, and George VI's message to the final jamboree was read in Afrikaans. A hangover from this emotional bender was the growth of the Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Fireguard), an Afrikaans cultural organization specializing in swastika armbands, military training, bombings of buildings and rail ways, beating up British soldiers. Leading "Peace Parades" last spring, General Hertzog found himself a benign and unwilling front man for local fascist extremists...
When Germany issued a special twelve-pfennig stamp advertising Italo-German solidarity (with pictures of Hitler and Mussolini, fasces, swastika and inscription) the British Broadcasting Corp. broadcast: "Now we can lick them both at once...