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Memo for Mr. H. H. Clegg -3- ~ me "atliions of mothers with sons of the age to be sent to the slaughter fields of Europe. We forsee oe in the progressive stages of this agitation a sinister purpose to undermine the foundation of the Republic and to submerge ou national independence in a unio with the British Empire, as advocated by Andren| Carnegie and Cecil ahodes MWe denounce the Jewish beycott of American | citizens eigaged in lawful trade and camerce.as in conflict witr Taw anda proper sense of American principles; and pee "Te denounce the widespread efforts to discrim- ae inate against and persecute German Americans by Be creating unjustified suspicion of their loyalty. We charge that the real ‘fifth colim!' 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— — get the great men who founded this Republic. Attorney General John 0. Rogge for the creation of a bureau 'to wake a _study.of German, Russian, Italian and Japanese propaganda and publishing the results of such_studies,' as reported in Washingt dispatches. uch a plan must prove repugnant to the most commonplace conception of decency and fair play. The plan convicts itself of insincerety and dishmesty by failing to in- clude British propaganda, avowedly financed by $150,000,000 appropriated by the British Parliament, "We denounce the plan proposed by Assistant é "We favor the armexation of the British and French West India islands outright in payment of the ten billion dollars borrowed fran American taxpayers during the World | War, an obligation over which those who love England and i France more than they love the United States have sought