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...that the treaty to put an end to rum running had been successfully negotiated. Nothing, he said, had humiliated him more than to have to go to the State Department, week after week, to request the release of some wretched schooner, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly flying the British flag...
Three days after the "Pirmasens affair" the green-white-red flag of the Separatists was hauled down by order of the Allies amid the indescribable joy and relief of the people, and the government of the area was placed in the hands of a Palatinate Kreistag Commitee. Great Britain, who, through ex-Foreign Minister Lord Curzon, was the first Nation to protest energetically against the Separatist activities, and who caused an Interallied Special Com-mission to be formed to study the Separatist question, was hailed by the Palatinate populace as their saviour...
...functions of the M. O. P. R. are to take care of Red prisoners in foreign prisons, to "support and encourage them materially and spiritually lest their revolutionary ardor should flag...
...universal observance of mourning, it was remarked that the German Embassy did not lower its flag to half staff. Protests arose in the press and elsewhere Ambassador Wiedfeldt announced that the German Government regarded Woodrow Wilson as only a private citizen and that the flag would be placed at half staff only on the day of the funeral. Meanwhile the Embassy flew no flag. In the early hours of one morning an unidentified group nailed an American flag to the Embassy staff. It was removed later by the police...
...natives was far more despotic and wilfully stupid than ours had ever been; their lack of interest in native languages, in intelligent natural history, exceeded ours." Sir Harry's is a taciturn account of that combination of exploitation, good government and scientific inquiry which solemnly carried the British flag around the world...