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Show Actions Refute Charges That Americans Are a Nation of "Dollar Chasers" By DR. GUSTAV HESS, Mayor of Wiesbaden, Germany. "Jingoism" and international jealousies are the foundation of the charges that the United States is a nalion of "dollar chasers." I know America, for in the dark days that followed November 11, 1918, we hart your officers and soldiers among us, as a part of the army of occupation In such a position, conquerors and conquered, we could not help bul come to know each other. Dollar chasers? In Germany it is geld, in England it is sterling, in France il is d'or. It is the same wherever you go, hut it is in Ameri ca that we find a great heart, which fights and forgives, which forgives and forgets. ' I You poured out your wealth to the needy and oppressed, and we in Germany benefited. It is so vastly different from what we expected that it. was almost beyond our understanding. Your reception of our Bremen flyers was a fine display of friendship. |