THIRTY-SECOND DECREE

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closed while the lesson of the allegory remains uppermost in the heaits and minds of the candidates. [I. THE HOLY EMPIRE On the flap of the 320 Apron is a double-headedeagle “sup-ported hy the flags of the Holy Empire,” and, until 1934, the letters II E. were attached to the titles of Grand Secretary General ,uid Giand Tieasuier General.

  Allegory