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World article further says: War. * * . .Revision of the treason text in the history books of the public Efforts were not lacking to gather the clans. Ameeting attended schools. * * by representatives of all the German societies throughout the United States. and attended by prominent Irish leaderswho proved stead- Now we get to the part of the platform of the Steubn fast during the war and were In Intimate touch with Sir Roger Case- Society which the chairman Is trying to carry out now: ment laterwas held at the Willard Hotel in"Washington in January. The revision of the immigration act of 1924. which in a clause that .1915. goes into effect in July. 1927. discriminates against the admission of - Boasting of the loyalty of this type of GermanAmericans to German Immigrants * * * the German Empire. during the World War. this article says: The Progressive. published at both Chicago and New York t sCity. which. as already stated. seems to be the main. though it nut stilly the GermanAmerican mddlaclnss citizens did not "waver. is probably not the only organ of the Steuiben Society. To show and hardly a shopkeeper or home owner among them hut scrapd its. hostility to things American. I make two brief quotations his till to subscribe to the German war loans. from its issue of January 15. 1927. one dealing with old and I want you to follow this. for I shall show that this act. nodern New England and the other with Virginia.