America's Independence Day was officially celebrated in London on Wednesday.
For the first time in history, the Stars and Strips* waved with the Union Jack on the Victoria Tower and over every Government building, in witness that the two branches of the English-speaking race are now at last united for one common purpose in one common understanding, as Mr. Balfour said at the American Society's dinner that night. If any American visitor to London was disappointed to find that his flag was not in every buttonhole, as it would- be in America, he must remember that we are a shy people, and do not willingly wear our hearts on our sleeves or the symbols 01-ourirmer convicted:-on otfr oats; Had'
any one had the wit to organize an American Flag Day for the Red Cross, every man, woman, and child in London would have grasped at the charitable excuse for wearing the Stars and Stripes.
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