Word: bunds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the freezing of Axis funds in the U.S., the German-American Bund, Axis propagandists, many an agent of espionage suddenly found no funds. Banks stopped withdrawals from any accounts that gave off the faintest Axis whiff. Also hit by the order were many an irreproachable corporation, foreign interest, alien shopkeeper, citizen. Shocked and shaken was Mrs. Abby Morrison Ricker, Manhattan socialite, daughter and granddaughter of bank presidents, who awoke one morning to discover that checks she had written were bouncing. She had returned a month ago from a two-and-a-half-year stay in Italy, had forgotten...
...Shanghai's plutocratic big bosses, the taipans, do their drinking at the Shanghai Club, or their business in air-conditioned offices along The Bund. Back of the skyscraper skyline along the Whangpoo River, where the Occident meshes with China, is the biggest, toughest, richest big-city badlands in the world. Kidnappings, bombings, murders are the small change of its life, and a holdup man can rent a gun from a policeman for $2.50. This Shanghai has its own polyglot dynasty of gangsters, gamblers, pimps, racketeers...
...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...