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...Minister Aranha carried out his intention, he could have added a wreath to the statue last week. It was the sinister shadow of Adolf Hitler hovering over South America that inspired the U. S. Government to open its purse strings for a fat loan to help Brazil develop her steel industry...
General de Gaulle and other "free Frenchmen" in London observed Bastille Day by laying a wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph in Whitehall. In France, July 14 was a day of mourning, as July 4 might be to the U. S. if it surrendered its freedom to a conqueror...
...Worldly-wise German officials in Argentina cabled to Berlin to suggest that troops in Nazi-occupied Boulogne lay a wreath on the house at 105 Grand Rue, where South American Liberator General Jose de San Martin (who led 4,000 men across the Andes in 1817, freed Chile, Peru and Argentina from Spanish rule) died penniless...
...Tuskegee Big Jim placed a wreath on the Booker T. Washington monument (Washington lifting a -veil from the eyes of a startled slave). Then he greeted frail old George Washington Carver, ate fried chicken, reviewed a parade. After Negro Tenor Roland Hayes had made his radio debut in a broadcast from Boston, Mr. Farley compared Booker T. to George Washington, to Robert E. Lee, shook many a black hand, visited the founder's grave, went on to Auburn. Mr. Farley ate chicken once again (he hates it), entrained for Atlanta, with Georgia and North Carolina...
...ring's reply was characteristic: if that should happen, he would send a special airplane to drop a wreath at Sir Nevile's funeral...