Word: pro-german
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...friendly to the nation with which we fought side by side in the great war? Why should we be moved to give offense to a friend for the sake of a people who did their best to knife us in the back during the great war, with their pro-German activities? As for friendly terms with Ireland, does Miss Taff know that American sailors were not allowed shore leave in Irish ports because attempts would be made against their LIVES by the "friendly" Irish? In my own small experience which, however, has brought me much in contact with the English...
Second--It is wrong in principle. Are we to aid the pro-German element in their very real and concerted effort to be re-accepted into public favor? Mr. Kreisler represents this element. And are we so soon to forget the class of ex Hun soldiers of whom Kreisler was one, and what their side of the fight stood for? At this time, when the war is hardly over and peace not yet signed, the fact that Harvard is giving this concert cannot properly be reconciled to the feeling of reverence we should have for our sacred dead...
...which spread over the country during the fall was a disgrace to the intelligence of the American people. Even more ridiculous were the arguments which this controversy called forth. In one western city the editors of a newspaper which ventured to advocate Kreisler's playing were publicly arraigned as pro-German. Anyone who defended Germanic music or mentioned Kreisler's gifts to French and British musicians was denounced as unpatriotic...
Some time ago, before the Treaty had been done to death, a wise man said that the only place where it was safe to be a rabid pro-German in this country was in the United States Senate. Senator Borah, with his horrid fears that poor Germany was going to be crushed; Senator Reed, who was elected by the Germans of St. Louis; Senator Johnson, who apparently preferred, as long as the dear Germans could not keep Shantung, to do anything rather than let the "despicable Japanese" have what was promised them--all of them played into Germany's hands...
...refusing to hold its second annual meeting in Chicago, the Legion made it plain what its action toward pro-Germans and former pro-Germans would be. Mayor Thompson of Chicago had refused to invite the French mission to his city, had publicly proclaimed Chicago as the 'sixth German city of the world,' and had shown his pro-German tendencies by many other actions. It seemed entirely fitting to refuse to hold a convention of American war veterans in a city which had re-elected him mayor...