Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth had come from London to give royal blessings to Eisteddfod-and to deliver a thinly veiled message from Britain's coal-hungry Ministry of Mines. Graciously she paid tribute to the Welsh miner, but gently, plainly prodded him: "His name is . . . a symbol of tenacity and achievement. Never before have so many looked to him for those qualities as today...
...picture, has retraced and re-enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more grim than any in Pompeii, the shadow of a human body, fire-stenciled into the pavement of Hiroshima...
Leon Blum, at the dedication of a monument to Vichy-murdered Georges Mandel in Fontainebleau, came up with a good Gallic symbol of Gallic solidarity: to his political antagonist, Rightist Paul Reynaud, France's Socialist elder statesman gave an unscheduled, non-compulsory buss...
...order to create a symbol of world unity, a flag common to all nations is the most effective solution. To that end, I suggest that the U.N. promote the idea of a United Nations Flag, to be displayed wherever & whenever the member states of this organization meet. Surely a "world flag" symbolizing world unity is preferable to a number of national flags which will always recall the diversity (and controversy) rather than the "oneness" of the world. No national flag should have "priority" in man's world-consciousness...
...foot in his gabby mouth. Snorted Mosley: "Absolute nonsense." The Keeper of the Privy Purse (treasurer to the King) thought it "most amusing." Most Britons ignored it; H. G. Wells simply did not understand a king who was neither tyrant nor snob, who merely served his people as a symbol of their past, their pride and their good manners...