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...Island off the east end of Nova Scotia. From there French fishermen still went out to the Grand Banks and there they built a mighty fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the northeast. It fell in a few weeks, was returned to France when King George's War (a Western Hemisphere overflow of Europe's War of the Austrian Succession) was settled. Ten years later Lord Jeffrey Amherst (hero of a famed college song) took...
Nazi Jew-haters have long studied the globe, picking out other peoples' colonies as a home for Europe's Jews. Madagascar stands high on the list. Australia, its Anglo-Saxon population moved to Canada and its great central plain irrigated with Jewish millions, has been considered. Even Alaska has been mentioned as the new Jerusalem. Hinting at tough measures to come, the Himmler organ warned: "The European Jewish question is not to be solved through homeopathic remedies and not by . . . humane directions...
...these powers and duties up here from the States. . . . We have only this choice: either to turn the American people loose, subject to the governmental power of an appointed personnel ... or we have got to make it possible for the citizen to resort to the only place under the Anglo-Saxon system of government that an aggrieved person can go to, and that is the courts...
Mayor Levi pronounces his name lee-vie, is distressed when he hears it called lee-vee, regards his ancestry as Anglo-Saxon. He is friendlier to the Jewish influx than was Founder Fisher, whose companies' hotels still bar Jews...
...endless hour between Fine Arts and Anglo-Saxon class. The Vagabond has always found it difficult to brook the transition from an hour of Italian art to the toothy language of his primitive ancestors. Even the free hour between the two, spent wandering about the Yard clucking at pigeons (if that is what one does at pigeons), never seems to set him in the proper frame of mind...