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...Jews. Few are the important businessmen who can quit a Congressional investigation without having their hair singed. Some have gone away without their scalps. Therefore it was an event when a wealthy businessman last week met Senators and departed not only with all his hair but with a Congressional wreath upon...
...National Student League of Harvard University demands the immediate removal of the Nazi wreath from Memorial Church...
After recognizing the heroism of German soldiers, and setting up a tablet in their honor, Harvard has been insulted, and its chapel defiled, by a wreath placed under said tablet bearing the official mark and colors of the German people. Not only that, but the German representative in Boston did the dastardly deed, under the guise of recognizing Harvard's breadth of mind in honoring the memories of America's former enemies...
...University should not have even considered permitting this wreath to disfigure the walls of a building supposedly devoted to the preservation of peace and all that is fine in human relationships; it is evident to all that the wreath represents a government which preaches a fevered nationalism and conducts hysterical racial massacres...
...However, the swastika wreath is not an insult to the Harvard Chapel alone, it is a brazen and sneering affront to the entire University, for the wreath is an emblem of a regime which has terrorized the students and professors of Germany, and which has reduced the splendid German national culture to an incoherent barbarism. That the friends and representatives of the Hitler government should dare to lay this swastika wreath in the name of peace, at the precise moment when Hitler, throwing aside all pretense, is arming his enslaved nation to the teeth, is a glaring example...