Word: tricolorations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stealthy Belgians posted up in major European cities last week this amazing poster, three feet high and adorned with the Belgian tricolor...
...French conscripts now being called to the tricolor are war babies, born in 1914-15. The fact that they are so few has worried the French General Staff for nearly a year (TIME. June 5). Last week was announced a new scheme to fill the blank files. "To aid unemployment" there will be a great recruiting drive in April for six-month volunteers, open to all young men who have completed their military service any time within the past five years. There will also be a call for "Spécialistes," unemployed young men who are willing to take...
After three weeks of desultory rioting, Paris suddenly became its ancient savage self. Mobs of veterans, of Communists, of screaming young Royalists tore through the streets. Some were headed by brass bands, some carried the tricolor, some the red flag. Each group was for a different cause but all were united against the small-mindedness of the Chamber of Deputies. In the broad Place de la Concorde occurred the bloodiest street battles Paris has seen since 1871. Drawn up at the opposite end of the square were blue-caped police, steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles and mounted squadrons of the Garde...
Serious fighting lasted 48 hours. One of the hottest set-tos took place before the neo-Renaissance HÔtel de Ville. Here the mob, mostly youngsters, was led by 13 perspiring Municipal Councilors with their tricolor sashes wrapped round their stomachs. Communists led the crowds that battled police three days later around the Place de la République...
...business for a week as a protest against the exclusion of St. Gandhi. The Bombay government retaliated by ordering the arrest of any merchant closing his place of business. At Ahmedabad an Indian surgeon was fined 1,000 rupees for refusing for the third time to remove the Gandhi tricolor from his dispensary. Unimpressed by the much publicized martyrdom of Krishna Kant (TIME, Jan. 25). a British magistrate ordered a 14-year-old boy flogged for picketing a British bank...