THE STATES: Maine Yields

Governor Ralph O. Brewster of

Maine stood on the Capitol steps at Washington last week surrounded by Cabinet members, Senators, Congressmen, Civil War survivors. To onetime Confederates from Virginia, North Carolina and Texas, he handed back seven battle flags captured from them long ago by aggressive Maine Yankees.

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