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Show CHARGES MADE AGAINST HUNS I Individual Members of Ger-! Ger-! man-American Alliance Supported Sup-ported German Propaganda in United States. WASHINGTON. April 9. Positive ' charges that individual members of the German-American alliance sup-1 sup-1 ported propaganda to mould the policy of the United States in tho event of war with Germany were made today by Professor F. E. Spcriy of Syracuse university before the senate commit-i commit-i teo considering the bill to revoke the I organization's charter. Members, he said, backed the American Amer-ican embargo conference, the Amor-1 Amor-1 ican Neutrality league and other organizations or-ganizations which he charged were (part of the Pan -German league. German school teachers a year ago, Sporry said, were teaching their 1 charges that "the time is coming when Germans in the United States would have the right that is their duty " Hearst's Pro-German Proposal. At the convention of the National German American alliance in New 1 York. 1907, Sperry declared. William ment of an international German alliance, alli-ance, the effect of which, Sperry' said, would have been to extend the activities activi-ties of the German-American alliance to German Mr. Hearst offered to pay the expenses ex-penses of the delegates from this country to Germany for this purpose, said Sperry. , Hearst Pays Expenses The plan never was carried out, Sperry said, but delegates went to Cambridge, Mass., at that time at the expense of Mr. Hearst, where a dedication dedi-cation of a German memorial took place. At the same eoncntlon the German-American alliance sent a message mes-sage expressing cordiality and good will of the members to the German emperor, Sperry said. nn . |