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Tryst with Destiny. Thus dedicated, India's rulers turned to the secular business of the evening. At 11 o'clock they gathered in the Constituent Assembly Hall, ablaze with the colors of India's new tricolor flag-orange, white and green. Nehru made an inspired speech: "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge. . . .At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom...
traditional rent is one small French tricolor...
Highlights among 127 Articles: The nature of the new Republic is thus defined: "France is a republic, indivisible, democratic and socially unified [sociale]. The national emblem is a tricolor flag, blue, white and red in three vertical bands. The motto of the Republic is 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...
...Calcutta riots the Congress tricolor and the Moslem green flag (and sometimes the hammer & sickle) had floated side by side from windows, from taxicabs, over the heads of marching throngs. Together they had flown from the masts of the mutinous ships at Bombay. At Karachi mutineers scrawled on their ships: "Not mutiny but unity among Indian sailors." A new slogan was heard in India...
...trouble was in southern Indo-China. At Hanoi, noting that the French Tricolor was missing from the decorations, General Marcel Alessandri huffily refused to attend the Japanese surrender to Chinese General Lu Han. And at week's end a protest went from Paris to Chungking: Chinese troops had "advanced" into Laos in the French zone