Word: tricolors
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Most of the former French colonies paid their mother country the compliment of adapting the Tricolor, although eschewing the French red, white and blue. Even the simplest designs caused headaches. In Chad, the Assembly wrangled for two days, and the 85 Deputies suggested 85 separate flags. In making its final choice, the government was careful to eliminate green, which for many Africans symbolizes Islam but in Chad is the color of the opposition party. Cameroun happily prepared to embellish its flag with a shrimp, since the country's name derives from the Portuguese word for shrimp, camar...
...Lome, sweltering capital of what was once the French Togoland, the French tricolor fluttered to the ground for the last time. Then two strapping Togolese soldiers smartly raised the new yellow-and-green-barred emblem of the free and independent republic of Togo as a French man-of-war in the harbor boomed a 101-gun salute and 20,000 Togolese, shouting "ablodé, ablodé" (freedom), snake-danced through the palm-lined streets behind a blaring brass band and native drummers. Thus last week was born the second of seven new African nations, due to join the world family...
Elected to the Hungarian Parliament in 1939 as a member of the liberal Smallholders Party, Father Varga, immune by reason of his parliamentary position from political arrest in pre-Hitlerite Hungary, had bolstered the spirits of his refugee flock and outraged local Nazis by flying the French Tricolor from his church spire. In 1944 Hungary fell to the Nazis. Condemned to death by the Hitler regime, Bela Varga hid in a church cellar, was sometimes sheltered by his lifelong friend, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. Soviet "liberation"' saw his death sentence reaffirmed by the NKVD; but he was released after...
...source of his political following. All Algeria became aware of Pierre Lagaillarde during the events of May 13, 1958. When the mob stormed the 14-story Government General Building, Pierre was one of its leaders, and thousands cheered as he mounted to the roof and triumphantly waved a huge Tricolor...
...Cameroon's new green, yellow and red flag fluttered proudly on poles that had carried the French Tricolor for 40 years, thousands gathered before the Legislative Assembly building at midnight to greet independence day with cheers. Later that morning Premier Ahidjo proudly assembled his distinguished guests for the formal ceremony pronouncing independence. The foreigners, who included...