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...Spanish ship bound from New York for Bilbao. Some were in tears, some stolid. They were Germans-142 women, 14 children, 35 men-sailing to the Fatherland in what appeared to be a general evacuation. One woman wrote, desperately: "Hitler has ordered our husbands who are members of the Bund to come back to Germany at once. We had to sell our insurance and take all our money to the consul, who gives us only a piece of paper. God help us, we leave our soul and life in America to go, we know not where, only to leave here...
...chief semi-neutral nation, has taken the lead in financing escapes and in finding new homes for the outcasts. But, generous as the financial response has been, American ignorance concerning these refugees has hampered aid programs and offered the Christian Front, the Klu Klux Klan, and the Bund a chance to strike a blow for the swastika here at home. These All Americans with their dupes and colleagues oppose further immigration on the grounds that those already here have increased unemployment. They mutter about our own racial purity and complain that this is a Jewish problem-that Palestine and Madagascar...
Even if a truce could be obtained in Europe, the Axis power and the threat of that power would remain. We would need a large army and navy, and increased production for war. We would be faced with renewed totalitarian propaganda, Bund activity, and all the rest of it throughout this hemisphere...
...Many U. S. Reds were surprised and shocked when the Communist newspaper, The Daily Worker, was sold to: 1. J. P. Morgan. 2. Leon Trotsky's New York representative. 3. The German-American Bund. 4. Rabbi Stephen A. Wise. 5. Three nice old New England ladies...
...been very successful in this regard. Blatant Harry Richman has used it at Ben Marden's Riviera on the Hudson, many another has crooned it in similar clubs. He has also been unsuccessful in preventing translators from rendering it in alien tongues. A chapter of the Bund attempted unsuccessfully to adopt it as its official tune, but last month in Rochester, Wis. 40,000 U. S.-loving German-Americans celebrated German Day, singing...