Mr. President. the records show that the recruiting method everywhere. except in certain States. cannot be depended upon to provide the men needed for our defensetraining programs for which appropriations have already been made. A very noticeable feature of the enlistment or lack of enlistment of volunteers in certain sections of the country is the indifference on the part of foreignborn persons and those of foreignborn parents immigrating to America from Italy. Russla. and Germany. Commentators. in explaining this. say it may be due to fright caused by threats from Berlin. Rome. and Moscow. It was stated. with much evidence of truth. that Hitler. Mussolini. and Stalin had obtained a mailing list of influential immigrants in the United States from their respective countries and were keeping them supplied with threats that. if they did not exert themselves against the United States getting into this war. their people back home would be made to suffer the consequences. They are sometimes. perhaps wrongly. called "fifth columnists" and are said to constitute a large part of the audience at meetings called to oppose the present administrations preparedness program. A few months ago. when the appropriation for the Civilian Conservation Corps was under consideration by the Senate. it will be recalled that the senior Senator from Georgia offered an amendment which would have authorized voluntary military training in all C.
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Generalizing that immigrants from Italy, Russia, and Germany are indifferent to US defense and susceptible to threats from their home countries.