Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27
Spies-Hiding
Under Cloak
OfCitizenship
America Told She Can
Halt Shady Practice
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

has pointed out that citizen
ship papers were often used
merely as a cloak to promote
subversive activities.
Nothing can be done about II
he's a citizen of the United
States" I've heard il said-and
read-many times.
What dreary. defeatist atti-
tude.
A big fellow like Uncle Sam
saying nothing can be done
about il" when he knew, through
many sources and channels, that
many of the holders of these
licenses to sabotage against
our form Of government flor
that's all these naturalization
papers mean to these particular
men and women were getting
away with murder
QUT something is being done
- about il. A bill may soon
become laW-to permit the
withdrawal of citizenship from
any naturalized American whose
conduct establishes that his
political allegiance is TO a foreign
state or sovereignty
Supported by both parties, the
measure was described by Rep.
Noah Mason, ranking minority
member Of the House immigra-
ton committee. as a step 10 re
woke citizenship papers used as
a cloak to cover up subversive
activities"
We have been too lax in the
past in the matter OF giving out
naturalization papers.
IT Is not enough that a can
L didate should answer the regu-
lation questions-in which he
has, quite often, been coached
like parrot.
There should be intelligence
and character tests. Any one who
becomes an American in spirit
as well as in letter. He's not Just
a citizen. He must be United
StateSer.
THE new premier of Norway"
l. Vidkun Quisling (who now
has king bee in his bonneD,
sat in his cage, which he called
his office, entirely surrounded by
the German Gauleiter'S gunner.
Suddenly in the empty chair
beside his desk appeared the
shade Of Benedict Arnold.
get OUT" whispered Quisling.
you have no right here. You
tried 10 sell out your country for
money. 1 am saving my country
for the new order. 1 am n pa
triot. OUT"
Not till I've had my say. my
brother I'm infamy," said, in mel
ancholy tones, Benedict Arnold.
"Our motives do not matter
when both are guilty OF the great
betrayal. For gold. Il Il true,
j offered 10 deliver West Point
TO British general. But you
have deliberately sold your peo-
pie into slavery.
You are only traitor to your
people but you are n traitor to
the whole human race. You have
stabbed humanity I'm the back.
"My name has become a syno-
nym on earth for all that Is vile
and ignoble, and l have lived
alone since my death, for no one
could be found as low as
am TO be put I'm the same cell
with me.
"RUT recently heard a voice
- say:
Benedict Arnold. after IS9
years of searching the earth
have found a man who shall, like
twin shade Of shame, go down
the centuries with you as an
epitOme Of all that men who
have liberty and loyalty despise.
His name il Nidkun Quisling.
His name shall OutIast yours
In infamy, for while you tried
only TO sell out n fort, pushed TO
that deed by woman and debts,
this man Quisling sold out
nation for no other reason than
To enslave his people 10 a man
with another name that shall 60
down the ages linked to all that
Is vicious and cruel I'm human
nature-Adolf Hitler
II am here. then, to tell YOU"
con tinued Benedict Arnold.
that though you have been
chosen as my companion I will
not have you.
For even as low as I am
can still recognize something
lower.
THAT II a man who, like my
self, did not commit the un-
pardOnable sin because he loved
n woman or because of pique or
for money, as / did, but because
he loves slavery more than free
dom and betrayed his people TO
a sOul-destroying foreign power.
"In hell I still wear my
uniform that wore Mt Saratoga,
but you. Vidkun Quisling, wear
the clothes that Judas Iscariot
wore when he hanged himself"
And that was the reason why
Vidkun Quisling tried to COM
NIT suicide last fall.
% YEARS AGO TO-DAY
March ~, 1917