"Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections."

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APPENDIX A

A FLAG OF LOVE AND HATE

GLADYS ELLARIONOFF was the maker of the flag of love and hate. As she cross-stitched the stars and stripes on a piece of linen, designed for a pillow cover, strands of affection were woven with the silken threads. That it was almost converted into a flag of hate, was no fault of hers, but the fault of someone who misrepresented America and masqueraded as a patriot.

She knew no word of English, when at six years old she arrived in America. She skipped three grades and now at fourteen is a sophomore in a high school in Seattle. It would be difficult to distinguish her in any group of modest, attractive, American high school girls, excepting that mentally she is well above the average.

She felt a keen sense of gratitude to the American Public School and was happy with her school comrades. Her parents, who are ambitious and superior people, loved America for the opportunity of selfdevelopment they enjoyed. They saved and sacrificed in order to subscribe for Liberty bonds of the first four issues. The part America played in the

"war for justice and democracy" aroused the enthusiasm of Gladys to such a pitch that it needed an outlet. The form in which it expressed itself was the making of the flag, coupled with the motto, "America, I love you." This sentiment is the true expression of the honest feeling of the entire family for the country, which had served them well, and which they in turn would gladly serve.

Now, one year later, the family's trunks are packed to return to Russia. They want to go. They are unhappy here. In packing her trunk Gladys took up the flag, but could not put it in. She said, "I cannot take it to Russia; I hate it.” What she had lovingly spent her labor upon was now a symbol of torture. Her little sister suggested that she rip out the motto, because it no longer told the truth, and take the flag alone. She wept bitter tears when she started to act on this suggestion, but her mother counseled delay in the hope that a better way out might appear.

Why this reversal of feeling for America? Gladys had been cut to the quick by the taunts of her schoolmates that her father bore upon his name the stigma of a criminal. He was among the 350 aliens who had been "rounded up" like cattle in the night by an official raid on the suspicion that they were dangerous. Dangerous to whom? Only 27 out of the 350 could be kept on any pretext of a charge. But to be arrested on suspicion, detained over night in jail when no charge of wrong doing