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JO sN@OGRR HOOVER i 5 DIRECTOR \ ao OF Fary ? A Federal Sureau of Investigation United States Department of Justice Washingtan, B.C. JFP:KLB September 24, 1940 MEMORANDUM FOR MR. He Ha saa , The September 5, 1940 issue of the Free American an tscher Yleckruf and Beobachter contains on Page 1 an article” ‘captioned eclaration of of 2 National Convention of German American | “ For record purposes the article is quoted as follows: : \ "The German American Bund in national conven~ tim assembled at Chicago resolves and declares as follows: "We reaffirm our loyalty to the Constitutim and laws of the American Republic and our readiness to serve our country, the United States of America, with our lives and fortunes in all emergencies, while holding to the motto: 'Our country, right or wrong; if right to be kept right, if wrong to be set right.' ™fe denounce attacks on the Bund as criminal lLibels, the outgrowth and result of an organized, highly-finaneed campaign of propaganda, as brazenly manifested by the widely publicised proposal to amend the Declaratim of Independence to read, “{.'Declaration of Interdependence,' a proposal to wmnite the United States With Mngland, Canada and other dominions of the British Hnpire. _ a "We demand that the laws of the land shall ey be impartially administered and not be made a springboard for discrimination and persecution Av of German Americans by procedures such as requir- * usual punishment' in civil cases, of which the . SN t Bund is prepared to furnish examples. «| ~756I- HOSO CODERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION i 4 OCT 3 1940. JS. DEPARTMENT OF JUBTICE & i ing excessive bail and inflicting ‘cruel and m- P|