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...paper patriots as reported in the metropolitan press was highly amusing. The manner in which they rushed to the support of the proposal and at the same time tried with much twisting and turning to have the cruisers augurs ill for this little attempt to ape the "Deutschland uber Alles" methods when it comes before the House again in the near future...
...active, thank you! And he had yet another occasion for a chuckle. No longer was he hooted at by his profession in the U. S. Clinical Medicine, a monthly magazine for practicing doctors, described him in solemn terms, made him the subject of its leading article. "Also geht Schmahung uber," he must have thought, for he thinks better in his native German...
Whereupon, the entire audience arose electrified, and bellowed three stanzas of Deutschland uber Alles, while the old Imperial standard was raised over the Festival Hall. The American old-time habitues, who formed a small faithful group, joined in with small enthusiasm. One of these, Mr. Maurice Halperson, has attended every Festival since the first, in 1876. This is the 27th...
...favorite pastime of German radio fans is listening to Deutsehland Uber A lies. It recently came to the notice of German newspapers that whenever their pet anthem is played "some one, somewhere, butts in." "Somewhere" was defined as "in the direction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris." The newspapers then chorused that playing the anthem is not a violation of the Treaty of Versailles and that Germans are entitled to play it as much as they like...
Then followed I Had a Comrade, a wartime song of sorrow for the fallen, and Deutschland Uber Alles. Then the parade...