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...Herrenvolk of the Midwestern and Northeastern States will constitute the German-Magyar American Bund, which will have a common frontier with the enlarged Mexican Federation of Latin States...
...Bund. Seven months after Pearl Harbor, the Government moved in on the German-American Bund, which had "dissolved" upon American entry into the war, had gone underground in literary, singing and sports societies. In New York, 29 Bundsters and associates were indicted on charges of assisting German-Americans to evade the draft. The time for laughing at the Bundsters' funny accents and cheap uniforms was at last officially over...
Conspiracy. Three days later the U.S. got a sudden reminder of its careless prewar past, when the Bund was only a joke. In the tiny fishing village of Boca del Rio, six miles south of Mexico's steamy Vera Cruz, Mexican police nabbed swarthy Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, onetime leader of the German-American Bund, where he succeeded Fritz Kuhn. Wilhelm Kunze had lived quietly in a small hotel, had bought a launch for an escape by sea. Hustled back to the U.S., he awaits trial on a charge of having conspired to send military information to Germany and Japan...
...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...