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CONCLUSION
United States a headache should she ever be involved in a war
with one or all of the axis powers.
In the United States itself we find that the strategy is the
same as that followed in Austria, Czechoslovakia and in coun
tries of the Western World. The German-American Bund func
tions
and
"to
promote better relations between the United
Germany,"
but the
efforts consist of persistent
States
anti-Ameri
can and anti-democratic propaganda and, within the past year
or two, of serving as a base for military and naval spies.
With Germany directing the strategy, her agents in all coun
tries raise the issue
of the
"menace
with especial emphasis upon
of the
the Jew;
Jew and
the
Catholic,"
the Catholics are
still
with
too strong for the Nazis to come
The Federal Government, of course, has ample legal machinery
for prosecuting spies, but espionage is only part of the broad
to grips
Nazi campaign against
this
at this time.
democratic Government.
So far as
concerned, the Federal Government has
taken steps to try to counteract the short-wave broad
already
the Western
World
is
by German and Italian government-controlled stations.
Counter broadcasts are being employed as a defensive measure,
and though of value, will probably not completely counteract
fascist
agencies supplying propaganda in the guise of
news, free of charge, to the Central and South American news
papers as well as printed propaganda sent from Germany and
distributed by the bunds. Outside of military action, economic
casts
"news"
pressure seems to be the only language the fascist governments
understand, and a little of that pressure by the American Gov
ernment would probably make them understand our resentment
at their invasion far more than broadcasts and general talk
about a family of nations in the Western Hemisphere.
Our laws and courts provide a machinery which can be used
to prevent
any infringement upon the democratically constituted
rights of the people. It is of vital importance, however, that
preparations for fascist lawlessness be vigilantly uprooted. The