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When the day came, followers of Gandhi's Indian National Congress party picketed government offices, sang their anthem, Bande Mataram.* They hung out Congress flags. They closed their shops. Leaders who were still unjailed tried to control the violence. They failed...
Willkie looked excited but very tired, as he had on his Moscow arrival (TIME, Oct. 5). The brass band was sour as it started the Star-Spangled Banner, but soon improved and was fine in the Chinese anthem. In the airport rest house Willkie said the right thing: "One of the difficulties facing me is that one falls so much in love with the Chinese people that it is difficult to form a critical and fact-finding judgment." According to Chinese custom, he was given a hot towel with which to refresh his hands...
When the bombs whistled down Norwegians waved from housetops, burned Nazi Party papers and literature, fought in the streets, set buildings afire, sang the King's Hymn and the national anthem...
...stars & stripes fluttered down from the stern of the PC-467; the U.S. crew marched briskly off. To their places stepped a new crew of Norwegians in neat, blue-trimmed white uniforms. The Navy band struck up the Norwegian national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Land of Ours). Sailors hoisted the blue cross of Norway, pulled a bunting from the ship's new name board: King Haakon...
Wherever Negroes gather in the U.S., hands rise just as quickly to such a question. To them Lift Every Voice and Sing is the No. 2 song to the national anthem. While white people bemoan the lack of suitable patriotic songs, even find fault with The Star-Spangled Banner's annoying octave-and-a-half range, colored people have quietly adopted a rousing anthem of their...