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"1683-1920": The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—GermaSchrader, Frederick Franklin

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"1683-1920": The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germa

Schrader, Frederick Franklin

Germans -- United States; World War, 1914-1918 -- Miscellanea

“This abominable decree, whose existence Grumbach thus
    revealed, is now known in its entirety. It is to be found
    in ‘The Official Bulletin of Upper Alsace,’ No. 25, June
    21, 1919. Its title is ‘Decree Relative to Citizens of
    Alsace-Lorraine in Renewable Detachment’ (sic). Order is
    given to the municipalities to draw up lists of citizens of
    Alsace-Lorraine in renewable detachment.

    “And here is what Article 2 of this strange decree says:

    “1. Every citizen of Alsace-Lorraine whose class has not
    yet been demobilized in France, and who notably appears to
    be a disorderly element, shall be immediately, upon the
    order of the Commandant of the District, arrested by the
    police and turned over to the military authorities.

    “His papers will be sent by the Commandant to the
    commanding general of the territory, who, after inquiry,
    will command the return of the arrested man:

    “To his old organization if he was a volunteer in the
    French army;

    “To the Alsace-Lorraine depot in Paris if he is a former
    prisoner of the Allied armies, or a liberated German
    soldier.

    “2. Citizens of Alsace-Lorraine whose class has been
    demobilized in France.

    “Any of these men who notably appears to be a disorderly
    element shall be arraigned by request of the Commissaries
    of the Republic before the Commission de Triage under the
    same classification as undesirable civilian citizens of
    Alsace-Lorraine.
      “Strasbourg, 24 May, 1919.

                      “Commissary General of the Republic,
                                    “A. MILLERAND.”

    After this, who can be scandalized by the vehement
    criticisms directed at the National Council by Grumbach,
    against the state of siege and of arbitrary rule which the
    Government of the Republic imposes upon Alsace-Lorraine?
    Does M. Clemenceau, that “old libertarian” know the
    decree of Millerand? In any case it is important to know
    that this decree is not aimed at the Germans residing in
    Alsace-Lorraine, but at the citizens of Alsace-Lorraine of
    Category A, those indisputably French. Incredible, yet true!


=Americans Not An English People.=--Careful computation made by Prof.
Albert B. Faust, of Cornell University, shows that while the English,
Scotch and Welsh together constituted 30.2 per cent. of the white
population of the United States of the whole of 81,731,957, according
to the census of 1910, the German element, including Hollanders, made
up 26.4 per cent. of the total, and constituted a close second, the
Irish coming next with a percentage of 18.6.

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