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The Stars and Stripes
• The O. S. Marines who raised (he stars and strips above the mountain of Surabachi on the Japanese island of Iwo Jtima in World War II wrote : glorious, never-to-be-forgotten page In Amerlcar history. TAe.'name loss American youths who earlier (his month raised the flag with the broad stripes and bright stars in front of their school on American territory in the Panama Canal Zone also deserve the thanks erf the nation . But there’s tragedy in this event, which was tVi1Awe(if2»y Panamanian rioters assaulting U, S. territory. For these patriotic youths were raising the American flag in defiance of a regulation of the American governor of the Canal Zone. The U. S. State Department, in a despicable deed of appeasement of Panama’s leftwing nationalist, had agreed that the American flag would not fly in front of an American school, attended by American children. What could those children have thought when they read of Iwo Jima and other battles
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