Word: tricolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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
...murmur went through the crowd. The Tricolor was going up on the tower of the cathedral whose stained glass windows Henry Adams once called "the Court of the Queen of Heaven." Beside the Tricolor waved the Stars & Stripes. Spontaneously the crowd began to sing the Marseillaise...
...most remarkable cyclist yet seen was a girl wearing a platinum fox short jacket, a huge washtub felt hat and accordion-pleated skirt, who somehow managed to make the bicycle look part of the ensemble. But shopgirls in printed frocks, bright sweaters, and the tricolor in their hair, as well as elegant women, make the G.I.s realize how much they have been missing in unimaginatively dressed Britain and the damp fields of Normandy...
...news that Paris was free stirred BBC's Director General to an act of Gallic impulsiveness: he ordered a tricolor flown from the roof. It floated proudly until a sharp-eyed Frenchman phoned to ask the reason. "Paris is free!" a delirious voice replied. "Hadn't you heard?" "Yes," said the Frenchman, "but why are you flying the Dutch flag...