Word: tricolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tour through the villages not long ago, Nehru was supoosed to unfurl the national tricolor at a public meeting. Something went wrong with the pulley, and the flag would not unfurl. The Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled...
Outside the Baker Library, where he spoke, the Yugoslav tricolor flew...
...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...