Word: bund
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naturalized U.S. citizen, the youngest, 22-year-old Herbert Haupt, was U.S.-born. He had gone through Chicago's public schools, had been a cadet officer in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Most were in their late 30s. All had been active in the German-American Bund. In the years 1939-41 they had returned to Germany, aided by German diplomats and Nazi funds. Back in Germany they had volunteered or been drafted into training at a Berlin school for sabotage...
...just don't believe we should expel all the Japanese aliens or Japanese-Americans because some of their number are disloyal any more than we should intern all those of German parentage because a portion of them belong to the Bund. I see no reason for falling victim to the racist doctrines of the fascists. From the observations I've made, I'm scarcely alone in taking this attitude. I can confidently say that there is no great cry for martial law on the West Coast...
...claimed to have inside dope on Nazi money-raising campaigns in this country and a list of 220,000 names connected with such activities. That was the last anybody heard from Dies on that score. In a radio speech, September 1939, he said he had evidence the Bund and native fascist groups were working in close co-operation. George Deatherage, former head of the fascist Knights of the White Camelia, was implicated. But nothing more was done by Dies about this domestic threat. It took the newspaper PM to expose Deatherage, who had planned a fascist coup, as a potential...
Last group of all in the five-layered machine was the Bund organization, of which all patriotic Nipponese were members. Its influence was political. The Bunds were organized and financed by the South Manchuria Railway...
Shanghai, once the very knob of China's open door, was taken over quickly and finally from U.S.-British hands. In the small of the night, Japanese soldiers poured into the International Settlement and along the famous Bund. A Japanese destroyer eased up to the British river gun boat Peterel, fired three red warning lights, a minute later opened fire and set it burn ing blackly. Then the destroyer proceeded 100 yards downstream and captured the U.S. gunboat Wake, which had been partially dismantled and was being used merely as a consular wireless station. The flag of the Rising...