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...World Council Fire was lit. There was a parade of the 39 nations carrying flags-but there were only 38 flags; Fraulein Katharina Hertwig, the only German delegate present, declared she was a Nationalist and refused to carry the flag of the German Republic, the "Socialist flag" which had been provided...
This actually resulted from a totally different cause, grew out of a squabble originally little noticed by the press - the so-called "German flag controversy" (TIME...
...imperial flag (black, white and red) was, as everyone knows, displaced by the Republican flag (black, red and gold) through the action of the National Assembly at Weimar in 1919. Recently the Luther Cabinet ordered that the merchant marine flag (black, white and red with a tiny black, red and gold field in the staff corner) should also be flown by German diplomatic and consular offices. This flag was denounced as "nine-tenths Imperial and only one-tenth Republican" by the Left parties; and last week Chancellor Luther was savagely interpellated about it in the Reichstag...
Herr Luther chances to possess more ability than wit. His enemies succeeded in making it appear that the Cabinet had taken a momentous decision detrimental to the Reich without consulting the Reichstag. Flustered, Herr Luther attempted to evade collision by announcing that he would postpone the execution of the flag order until August. Then, witless, he offered the ridiculous explanation that several months' time would be needed to communicate the order to German consulates in different parts of the world...
...What colors are in the flag of the German Republic...