Word: thorshavn
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Thorshavn, chief Faroe village, Poul Petubson, Faroe delegate to the Danish Parliament, called an indignation meeting. Later a crowd of inflamed cod fishermen with Delegate Petubson at their head swept through the streets to the Lagting (local parliament) building, brushed aside Thorshavn's lone policeman, hauled down the Danish flag, a white cross on a red field, and hoisted the Faroes' banner?a blue-trimmed red cross on a white field...
...Copenhagen Prime Minister Stauning showed no alarm over the Faroes' flag day. "Flags have a peculiar power over some people," said he. "The Thorshavn affair should not be taken too seriously...
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