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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 22
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help those Germans tho are cpplying for citizenship in the United States to
file their papers correctly md "through which means we do not miss the .
opportunity to impress upon them thet although they ere becoming American
citizens they cre of German descent and cs citizens here. thev crn be of great
help to the German homelenc, but only in a cultural wast. entions that
several instances have arisen wher? the fGermin Front Soldaten ranted to join
in parades with te finericsn Legion byt/ that certein Jevs made such a clamor
thrt the Goraen Fro Sold» ten did not join the par-de. He also states that
on account of the Jms in “ric, the Germin radio hour has been discontinued.
He points out that a wesk before this letter wes sritten, a porade vos plamed
and when objection ‘vas raised to the German Front Sold-ten displaying the
present day German inmperi7zl flcg, the Major of the .mericon Legion stated that
in such an event, the American Legion men would not enter the parade vither.
stated thut he thanked the M-jor for his feclings and -ssured the Major
the highest esteem on the pert of the Geraen-mindced Corrades, states
"The Jevs in this way mcde fools of the Americans", GP cntines by commenting
upon the contacts of ues f R00 ev=Lt nd her affiliations vith Jewish persons.
of prominence. In this Fetter expresses anti-Semctic feclings regarding
such prominent speakers as TONI WD Ry GERHARD? JSZEG=%, and EXT SLU
Th the paragraph regarding the Pe ostion of displbyirg national flags, states
an though we Decaome citizens, to be sure only beccuse of mcral compulson,
we ars not permitted to fly the flag of enother nation." To overcome this
Situation, Ge veqests advice <s to their being able to use the Kyffhacuser
flag cs that fing dozs not hive the Swostika on it, and for this reason vould
not czuse so much comment and yet their group would be flying a Germcn flag,
He furtier <sks GOERING if one of the so-called "Cultural attachess" boing sent
out by Germony was coming to Zric, Pa.; and, if so, what his name wes, so thet
he could entcf into :n allicnce with him. He continu-:s his lettcr by mentioning
the fact th:.t he is endeavoring to becom? Sonica cazcogane cand a
a Mention {s 21so made in the concluding portion of the letter ov
ava perey ws being org nized to proceed ed to Germony for the Tannenberg . i
celebration in 1939(conecrning wh whichjConfidential Inform-:nt 0-33 States tht — “ .
= person mking this trip wuld tert by be pledging his Allegisnce to Germeny)
at which time "We will hsve the honor to personally Icarn ta kmow our Leader, .
__ Mr. ADOLPH HITLER, and you, Mr. Prime Minister, and other Comrades, who hove
a. helped to make free the German Enptre, our homeland", @§ concluded his) letter™:
by apologizing for the fact that he +s not a Nazi Party member which ms due
to his not having received enough information regarding the true aims of the
Part at the time he was approzched in Germany. He closzs the letter or vith
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