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Memo for Mr. H. H. Clegg -3- "miliiois of mothers with sons of the age to be j sent to the slaughter fields of Europe. We forsee . t in the progressive stages of this agitation a sinister purpose to undermine the foundation of the Republic and to submerge our national independence in a unim with the British Eupire, as advocated by Andren| Carnegie and Cectiphodes. "Re denounce the fewish boycott of American citizens egaged in lawful trade and camerce as in conflict wit Taw -ant-a proper sense of American principles; and fe denounce the widespread efforts to discrim- inate against and persecute German Americans by creating unjustified suspicion of their loyalty. Je charge that the real ‘fifth colum!' in our midst is not any German American organization but is composed — of Tories and internationalists who, with unlimited means at their command, urge 'the reclamation of the United States as an integral part of the British mn- . pire' and bid Americans in page advertisements to for- i get the great men who founded this Republic. ts "ie denounce the plan proposed by Assistant f Attorney General John 0. Rogge for the creation of a "4 oureau ‘to wake a study of German, Russian, Ttalian and Japanese propaganda and publishing the results of such_studies,' as reported in Washington dispatches. uch a plan must prove repugnant to the most commonplace conception of decency and fair play. The plan convicts itself of insincerety and dishonesty by failing to in- clude British propaganda, avowedly financed by $150,000,000 appropriated by the British Parliament, "We favor the annexation of the British and French West India islands outright in payment of the ten billion dollars borrowed from American taxpayers during the World j War, an obligation over which those who love gland and France more than they love the United States have sought