Show What a Our ur Readers ea ers Think in I Editors Editor's note Contributors to fo What Readers Ruders Think must sign their true names and addresses although these will not be published If the writer re- re re quests Short letters will be given preference We w. Cant Can't Trust Germans Especially the Prussians Editor Telegram There is a alot alot alot lot of postwar planning talk going going go go- ing on right now But I have not heard anything yet about regulating regulating regulating regu regu- lating postwar immigration In fact some well weIl meaning but perhaps uninformed Americans America s say we should not be hard on on the German people eople Some even think that we are too hard on them here Well I can not be accused of being prejudiced because because be be- cause I had the misfortune tobe to tobe tobe be born there there though from fathers father's fathers father's fathers father's fa fa- ther's side I am of English de de- scent But I left there nearly 60 years ago and am glad my family family family fam fam- ily Is already in the fourth gen generation gen geri- In our beloved country Yet I have seen enough of German German German Ger Ger- man to warn my fel Id- fellow low citizens not to be deceived by nazi agents and nazy sympathizers sympathizers in our midst midst and and we have them I warned more than 50 years ago in the east eMt that the Kaiser intended to build up a fifth column in this country but people people peo peo- pIe thought it cant can't happen here I warned before the first world war again they thought It cant can't happen here I said after the first world war the German nation is on the downward down- down w war ward a r d road that Germany dumped some of the most undesirable unde unde- undesirable elements on our shores Was I right or wrong Look at Hauptmann a former machine gunner in hi the Lindbergh case and the saboteurs caught by the F FBI B I 1 and that traitor Stephan In Detroit also a former German machine gunner Then add all these disloyal etc No doubt the Jape Japs can equal them In treachery but I doubt whether they can beat them I believe after the war we should allow all Jews in Germany Ger Ger- many many many-it If there are any left aliveto alive aliveto to to come here but not a single thoroughbred Prussian should be permitted to land here And theother theother the theother other Prussian-conquered Prussian Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans should be carefully checked up before getting permission to come here No Jap should be permitted at all I think those of Jap Tap ancestry who are arc here now may gradually be absorbed in the American melting pot Dont Don't waste sympathies on the German nation especially the Prussians who are the rulers of that nation Germany invaded France before Christs Christ's birth In years four times after Christ 42 times according to history and the New York Tribune Trib Trib- Tribune une an average of once every 48 years And every time they promised never never to do it again Is anybody foolish enough to believe they would keep any promise this time Before the first world war them the m majority of German Immigrants who were Prussian anti-Prussian were thankful to be permitted to come here Most of them became became be- be be came loyal citizens proud to be Americans I know how proud I felt about half a century ago when I received my citizenship papers and thought that I swore allegiance to the United States States' and never to any other country like some had hod been forced to do before they came here I have mentioned that many times to fellow citizens who were honored with citizenship Many times I I have said and written and I repeat It again especially I for naturalized citizens who may feel inclined to stand with one foot in their native land and the theother theother theother other In the U. U S S. S Love the U. U S. S or leave them G. G F. F Bushman |