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Memo for Mr. H. H. Clegg -2- 1 aa "The Bund looks back with pride on the patriotic contributions, achievements and sacrifices of its 2 German pioneer forebears in building and defending - the Republic against the aggressions of Great Britain and France. It asserts without fear of successful contradiction that the German element has formed an integral part of American political and sodal . life fran the first Jamestom settlement down, and through ths personages of-such leaders as eral Baron v,xSteuben, Jacop\xeisler, ee enger, eo eiser, Franci, eber, Kard*Follen, ‘1 cl churz and many others, has exercised inestimable constructive influence inseparable from American b life in all its branches. "Firmly holding that the past patriotic acts of our people entitle us to an equal voice in the A affairs of our country, the United States of America, a and prepared to follow the example thus set us, we ; hold umwaveringly to the doctrine of keeping Europe “ out of America and America out of Surope, as that F doctrine was transmitted to us by every President, if from Washington dom to Lincoln and Cleveland. } ‘ "We wholeheartedly support the Honroe Doctrine, but point but that the Doctrine is not a one-sided expression of policy, in that it is equally emphatic | in pledging the United States to oe of nme-inter~ i ference in Buropean affairs, H "We hold that the agitation and panicky deliveries fron a high m the supposed dangers that threaten the United States from invasion is hame-made for the ul- terior purpose of preparing the growd for American intervention in a Evropean quarrel, "Wie therefore deprecate the attacks on Cg]. j Charles dbergh and Hi ‘ord and other courageous, outspoken Americans as part of a vicious propaganda financed by internationalists to silence the voice of