As the regimental band played American jazz tunes, Colonel Miller strode into the hall in a full dress uniform. Seeing him, the curé insisted that the band play the American national anthem in his honor. Someone tried to explain to him that that wasn’t really necessary. But the priest insisted. While Higuchi went searching for the sheet music for “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the band began playing “Sweet Georgia Brown” to fill the time. The curé, mistaking it for the American anthem, leaped to his feet and commanded the townspeople to rise and stand solemnly at attention as the raucous, brassy,
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