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a ” JO Ne@BORR HOOVER . DIRECTOR , Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Justice Washington, B.C. JFP:KLB September 24, 1940 MEMORANDUM FOR MR. H. He ura san sce The September 5, 1940 issue of the Free American \. an. utscher Weckruf and Beobachter contains on Page i an Vo article “captioned, Declaration of 1940 National Convention \ of ¢ German Americar. Bar ~ 2 Por record purposes the article is quoted as a follows: ~ “ ~v _ "The German American Bund in national conven- tig assembled at Chicago resolves and declares as follows: a he "We reaffirm our loyalty to the Constitution and laws of the American Republic and our readiness to serve our country, the United States of America, with our lives and fortumes in all emergencies, while holding to the motto: ‘Our country, right or wrong; if right to be kept right, if wrang to be set right.’ ™fe denounce attacks on the Bund as criminal libels, the outgrowth and result of an organized, ! highiv-financed campaign of propaganda, as brazenly =~ ‘ manifested by the widely publicised proposal to amend the Declaratim of Independence to read, - “} Declaration of of Interdependence, ' ae proposal to ULE LAS JUNILLEeO SOLales WLU England, Canada and other dominions of the British Empire. ‘. OF Farry A ay T w se asm ie © Rf "Ne demand that the laws of the land shall | a4 be impartially administered and not be made a [ . ee springboard for discriminatim and persecutim : oon x of German Americans by procedures such as requir- | , ing excessive bail and inflicting ‘cruel and wm- .7 usual punishment’ in civil cases, of which the - 8 ay L Bund is prepared to furnish examples, WWW, F —— agate B¥SeL AGRO, om aman 1940. d\\0 SST -