Word: tricolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...