Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Flag...
...safety in wartime. The "Roerich Pact" was drawn up by Dr. George Chklaver of the University of Paris and Professor Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle, Law Professor of the Sorbonne, Hague Court member and vice president of the Paris Institute of International Law. Chief provision is the creation of a flag to be flown, during hostilities, over museums, cathedrals, libraries, universities and other cultural centres, to prevent such disasters as befell Rheims and Notre Dame...
Friends of Roerich wished for him last week that such a treaty already existed. Carrying Art's flag he might be able to wrangle from the British a visa for India, where his wife lay sick but where the British-despite official pleas from Washington and Paris and four other countries -(Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Brazil & Peru)-feared his alleged sympathy for Soviet Russia...
Officials were incensed. Down came the Faroe flag, up went the Danish. Out came Delegate Petubson again, and while cod fishers cheered, up went the Faroe flag once more...
...Copenhagen Prime Minister Stauning showed no alarm over the Faroes' flag day. "Flags have a peculiar power over some people," said he. "The Thorshavn affair should not be taken too seriously...