Word: tricolorations
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...came three silver-spangled elephants from the princely stables (see cut), followed by seven camel warriors armed with 18th Century blunderbusses. Then came a mile-long procession of boys & girls marching to seven brass bands and gaily decked out in the hues of the Dominion of India's tricolor: green, white and orange. At the end, in a silver chariot drawn by four snow-white pedigreed bullocks with green painted horns, came mountainous Congress President Bhogarazu Pattabhi Sitaramayya, smothered in marigold garlands and beaming like the grand marshal of a St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue...
Bombs & Machetes. In the fire-blackened three days that followed, conference delegates escaped injury. The Mexicans walked out of the Capitolio in the first hour of the uprising, carrying their tricolor flag. Secretary of State George Marshall, at his suburban residence, was safe but marooned...
Invitation to the Souls. But for a moment last week the festival tumult subsided. Through the tent city moved a truck with a raised platform draped in India's tricolor flag. On top rode an earthenware brown urn. Within it were most of the ashes of Mohandas Gandhi. Chatter was hushed as the catafalque moved slowly past...
Last week the iron-gated entrances to the mines of Sains were locked. Outside the gates a striker had planted a tricolor flag, which drooped in the grey air. In Sains, as elsewhere in France, men wanted to work; in Sains they could not. In a tavern on the Grande Rue they discussed the extraordinary leader of the town's back-to-work movement: the Abbé Georges Lorent, priest of the local church, also the mayor of Sains-en-Gohelle...
Last week, after many miners had told him they wanted to work, the priest-mayor decided to take action. He collected a group of miners, wrapped a tricolor sash around his waist, and advanced on the pit heads. They were met by hundreds of Communists and hangers-on (only a few of them local people) who had armed themselves with clubs. After a short scuffle the Abbé Lorent's forces withdrew. "I wanted to avoid bloodshed," he said...