The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-24


those who do their own emigrating
It also is apt to be true OF their
children and grandchildren, and &C.
casionally on down through several
additional generatIons-folk who.
maybe. never saw the Fatherland,
but still retain a lot Of its inherited
characteristics in their systems.
Mayor F77te''o LcCuardia Of
New York is a sample Of quite re-
cent Italian descent. He was born
here. to be sure. but his parents
weren't. They were Italian enough,
originally. to name him Little
Flower in the language OF the
peninsula they hailed from But
who'd think OF Fiorello as anything
but a dyed-in-the-wool American,
with monieker brought from
abroad at least as far back as the
landing Of the Mayflower's first
batch OF passengers A Won"
though, doesn't so readily get
over II.
All the same. the Teutonic tribe
furnished US with the ancestry for
very stable proportion of our
best people.
Moreover, a few keep coming
refugees from Nazism and belliger-
entity on our side against the AXIS
Treat En- Alike
Well then. why shouldn't Attor-
ney General Biddle proclaim these
folk also as exempt from considera-
ton as much as Italians amongst
us? The points been raised and
seems TO be entitled to discussion
or its merits.
The answer evidently is that an
anti-Naz German is as deserving
Of hospitable treatment as any
other foreign sojourner with US.
but nat lis case REQUIRES individual
investigation, rather than such a
blanket order as the justice depart
ment issued for the Italians bene-
fit. The presumption automatical-
ly favorable as to an Italian; not
necessarily so as to a German.
Federal Secret Service Chief J.
Edgar Hoover dug into the situa-
ton thoroughly preceding issuance
Of Attorney General Biddles order.
He didn't find enough pro-AXis
Italians in the United States to
wad a shotgun. I'd have known
that ne wouldn't, from chats with
Italian-Americans whom I'm per-
sonally acquainted with. The unan-
unity OF their verdict against Duce
was 100 per cent or
Since then it's become
that its accurately repre-
sentative Of home-staying Italy.
I'd judge that Herr Hitler and
Benito think so. too.
Adolf, from all accounts, SEEM
ingly is preparing for a German
grab OF Italian territory, to coun-
teract Benitos bungling-or per-
haps disloyalty to him; Benitos re-
ported 10 be as mad as halter a.
him. and probably fearful for his
personal scalp. from his own coun-
try's vengeance.
We've something TO learn, b. the
way, from South America.
Here in the L. S. A. we've fairly
thoroughly assimilated our OLD
World clements. until We don't
know which from which amongst
US.
on the southern continent they
remain sharply oolonized. sepa-
rately
Germans Stay That Way
The Germans. and their descend
ants, where they're thick. are pro-
Axis. to the extent Of being rebel
lious, wherever their local govern
ments disagree with 'em.
At the outset it was wondered II
the Italian congregations wouldn't
be pro-Ax.s likewise. their home
land being in the same combina-
ton
I, hasn't turned out that way.
The Latin American Germans re-
main They cornub.ate among
themselves 70 an extent that ey-
tracts speeches from Yankees like
Urfcrsecrctary Of state Sumner
Welles-ar address that I, person
ally thought. as a longtime South