Word: tricolors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early morning crowd of Viennese, gathered before the building where the flags of Austria's four occupiers have flown for ten years, looked upon a cheering sight. With the Stars and Stripes, the Union Jack, the Hammer and Sickle and the Tricolor floated Austria's red and white flag. Inside the building, the occupiers bent to their task: arranging for the red and white of Austria to fly sovereign and alone...
...your Nov. 15 "Down Comes the Tricolor": Perhaps I'm what the new "saviors" of the world would call old-fashioned and reactionary, but I was deeply grieved upon learning of France's abandonment-without even a popular referendum-of her majestic Indian territory of Pondicherry . . . If this deliberate withdrawal from French territory is a part of Mendès-France's new cooperative and "advanced" program, then I pity the fate of the remainder of the French Republic's pride and glory...
...student of his time at Hanoi University, graduate of Chinese military schools. A Communist since the late '30s, he is sometimes temperamental and needs to be watched by party theologians, but his hatred for the French is unwavering: his first wife went to jail for calling the Tricolor a "flag of dogs," and died of typhoid there...
...everybody was happy. When the time came last week to lower France's tricolor, sullen French officials did it surreptitiously, to foil eager Indian photographers. Pondicherry had been widely known as a "goodtime town" and a smuggler's paradise (less than 1% of the millions of dollars worth of watches, silks and other luxury goods imported into Pondicherry went to its local citizens). Last week elderly, solemn Indian officials moved into choice hotel rooms previously used as brothels. One disgruntled hotelman pointed to a big stack of empty whisky bottles beside his back veranda and sighed: "That...
...pathetic little ceremony inside Hanoi one evening last week, the French Tricolor was hauled down and handed to a silently weeping colonel. Next day, in well-ordered triumph the first of 30,000 helmeted, green-clad troops of the Communist Viet Minh rolled into the city in Russian Molotov trucks, Russian command cars and jeeps, on bicycles and afoot. Thus IndoChina's ancient capital (pop. 400,000) passed into Communist hands, in starkly simple faithfulness to the Geneva agreement which turned half of Indo-China over to Red rule...