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...true that the War put a stop to The Fatherland, and it was resumed later as The American Monthly. Nothing ever put a stop to The Fatherland. It was published uninterruptedly. It is still published, though no longer by me. I changed the name before the rupture of our relations with Germany to indicate its essential Americanism...
...FLESH AND BLOOD-George Sylvester Viereck-Liveright ($3). Before the U. S. entered the War George Sylvester Viereck laid the foundations for his subsequent unpopularity by editing the pro-German Fatherland. In this book he quotes the characteristic compliment bestowed on him by the late Col. Henry Watterson's Louisville Courier- Journal: "A venom-bloated toad of treason." But politics and patriotism have never been Author Viereck's whole concern. In this "lyric autobiography," heavily humorless, egregiously egotistic, he tells everything anybody could possibly want to know about George Sylvester Viereck's life and loves. The book...
Hans Wagner was enrolled at Cornell in 1908-09. He returned to Germany and died fighting for his fatherland in the World War. Yet his name is missing in the War Memorial cloister, which bears these words at its entrance...
...every student, graduate, and friend of the University who sincerely believes that Fritz Dauer, Max Schneider, and Kurt Carl Otto Peters sacrificed their lives for what to them was a worthy cause, and that their service to the fatherland was as noble as Harvard's other heroes, was to their countries, then let them each contribute towards a memorial tablet to be place din our Germanic Museum. Surely this idea cannot be rejected as "Inconsistent," "unpatriotic", or "a breach of faith." The Germanic Museum was built largely by gifts from friends of the pre-War Germany, was presented with many...
...conclude that Germany's move is ill-considered. Complete civil liberty, however, has never been accepted as an administrative maxim. In this country, federal customs restrictions, state prohibitions, provide for censorship and deny the right of free meeting. Unless the application of Germany's decree is extremely rigorous, the Fatherland need not be ranked with Italy and Russia as a post-war despotism...