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Show THE FLAG. The Britisher were right m stopping Ameri-cana Ameri-cana from, parading thcstreeta -otL-ondonc arrji, ihg the American flag. There is no place in England Eng-land where the American flag should be raised, unless the. British flag is above it or intertwined with. it, except over tha American embassy or consul's offices or on ships in the harbors, for the reason that the flag is the highest symbol of a nation's na-tion's .sovereignty. . By the fiction of custom or of law, the embassy of a country in foreign territory- transforms the spot where the embassy is located; lo-cated; for the time being the territory of the country represented by the embassy is that country's coun-try's noil, and over that the flag of the country rightfully floats, but. nowhere else save on foreign for-eign ships in port. Americans in London, should understand this and not violate the clear rights of the country in which they are but temporary guests. In our country, no man can become president unjfsa born on American soil.' But were a son born to our embassador and his wife, in the London Lon-don embassy,, that child might become president. Americans do not, as a rule, appreciate enough their flag; but they ought to know enough not to wound Englishmen by hoisting their own country's coun-try's flag in London streets. Englishmen have been' watching their flag for a thousand years, and in their eyes it- is unrrounded with all the splendor' and all the sovereignty that their conn-try conn-try haa gathered in peace and war for those thousand thou-sand years;. .. |