Word: flag
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Crimson banners will be festooned all over the Fair Grounds, and a large Harvard flag will share the Court of Peace with Old Glory while a big red H will show n the side of the Perisphere at night...
...purpose of the gathering will be to acquaint the intrepid trail-blazers-to-be with the hazards of the upstream passage so that the lesser men will be afforded an early opportunity to drop out. The remainder will be addressed by the Flag Officers on the ideal and purpose of the trip: to pioneer a maritime rapprochement between Harvard and Wellesley...
...cryptic communique issued last night by the Flag Officers stated that, "Plans are maturing. The flotilla will proceed under sealed orders to be given out tomorrow night. No enemy opposition is expected...
...time the Nazi flag went up at Åndalsnes last week, U. S. Army experts estimated 85,000 Germans had been put into action on Norwegian soil. By this week observers raised the figure to 150,000, despite a heavy toll from continued Allied attacks in the sea lanes off Sweden's west coast. Many more were expected in weeks to come, because Falkenhorst played for Norway for keeps. He got there first, now he must stay there last, since Germany needs Norway not only for military reasons, but for prestige and home morale...
...many hours before the Nazi flag rose over Åndalsnes, Norway's King Haakon fled aboard a British man-of-war out of Molde, the port at the sea end of Romsdal Fjord. Some reports said he would go to Great Britain, as did his Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, while calling back over his shoulder to his countrymen to resist to the last. But Norse loyalists insisted that their King would take his stand and maintain his Government in one of the three northern provinces yet left to him: Nordland, Troms, Finnmark. Upon his attitude and whereabouts, or those...