The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-23


, tions in America Dinner, held at tn
/ Hotel .Biltmore, in New York, on Sa
urday evening, April 18th, under tn
sponsorship of the American Commi
tee for Protection of Foreign Born.
Hon. Francis Biddle, Attorney Ger
eral of the United States: adolf Hit
Ter, who probably will go down il
history as the unrivaled maker of tn,
worlds most colossal wrong guesses
never exercised that peculiar talen
more conclusively than when ht
counted on the so-called foreign ele
ment in America to turn against the
land of their adoption after war broke
out. That wrong guess ranks beside
the expectation that Goering's bomb
ers could break the spirit of Britain
or that anti-Soviet revolt would split
Russia.
Here in our country, with its con
glomerate citizenry, and its freedom
for all, a national unity has been
achieved, a pervasive loyalty to coun-
| try has been demonstrated, requiring
no race myths to hold it together
From these shores go fighting men
of English birth, of Russian, French,
Swedish-yes, and German and Italian
men of all origins yet Americans all
fighting men who. on the battle
field, have already made very embar-
raising the German self-designation of
master race" On some of those
battlefields the nazis will now be very
happy indeed if they can prove them
selves the faster race"
Hon. James ]. Davis, Member of
United States Senate: Throughout all
the years, since its very inception,
America has been the haven of the
world. To this land have come the
oppressed, the weary, the ambitious
and the adventurous of all foreign
lands. Their gratefulness for free
dom, their love of enterprise, their
thirst for progress, and their unceas-
ing devotion to right and justice have
gone far toward making this land the
beacon light of the world. May these
necessary elements continue to abide
in America during all the years to
come, so that whatever the status of
the world may be, man may always
lift their eyes to America and seek
to attain to her station"
Philip Murray, President, Congress
of Industrial Organizations: 1T is a
privilege to join with you in a tribute
to the many rich contributions of
foreign-born Americans to our war
against Axis tyranny and overweening
aggression. America is a nation pc
culiarly indebted to the devotion and
generous loyalty of peoples from
every land and every race and creed. |
At a moment when the essential fra
.ernity of men has been called into |
question by the terrible instrument
Of war, it becomes us all as good |
20 that fraternity which is the spiri- |
.ual center of the cause for which
we are fighting"
Count Sforza: 1.-THE Americans from
Did Mayflowers and the Americans
from Ellis Island are equally Amer
cans in the noblest sense of the word |
Il, to be Americans, means to be de- |
voted to the war against Slavery and |
5vil. Even all of us who want to go
Jack to our countries to fight there
or their freedom and for a United
World, we may find in this sublime
word, America" a common sacred
on condition, of course,
hat the Ideals embodied in your i'm
Mortal Declaration of Independence
re not an empty Boosting for some
'ourth of July but the practical per-
nanent contribution of this great
ountry to the Progress of the World"
Joseph Curran, President, National f.,
Iaritime Union: "On behalf of the
Maritime Union, / want to
congratulate your committee for the I
plendid work it is doing protecting :
he democratic rights of the foreign
orn Americans. The loyalty of these {
eople and the contribution they ale
laking in this war against fascism .
as been proved many times on the
ED of battle. In my union, which :
as suffered losses proportionately ,
our times greater than the other
rmed forces combined, seamen of
1reign origin have covered them
elves with glory delivering the weap-
ms of war all over the world.