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MEETING OF BUNDAROUSES CONGRESSncl .nc:But Members Disagree on Whether’■ Such Organizations Should Be PermittedBANKHEAD STOUTLYASSAILS GROUPiei-10a-rd.r,dWASHINGTON, Feb. 21. iP— Members, of Congress disagreed today as to whether such organi-a~ i zations as the German-American Bund . should be permitted to hold public meetings.Reaction to the stormy session of Che Bund in New York last night varied from a statement bySenator Bankhead (D-Ala) thathe favored “concentration camps tor those trying to. spread un-American ■ propaganda” to an assertion by Senator Downey (D~ Oaiif) that “any group has a right to hold a meeting s so long as .it is legally authorized.”•il think these Bund meetings would amount to a lot less if the opponents of Hitler In this country would just: ignore them,'said Downey.i Bankhead's Comment.Bankhead ' declared fiI am against attempts to spread the doctrines and theories of Fascism or Hitler in this country. I don’t believe in letting foreigners stay in this country, even if naturaliz-when they try to destroy our American government.''One Republican senator, who asked that his name not be used, said “I detest this kind of meeting but I’d fight like hell to let •them hold it.’”: Rep. Healey (D-Mass), a member of the house committee investigating Un-Americanism said:“I deplore all gatherings assembled under the banners of:organizations not strictly devoted to the advancement of America and the objectives of our democracy. Such . energies might betterbe directed, particularly at thistime, toward • the advancement of democracy and Americanism.ijiit.iicI.1
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Moberly Monitor Index

Moberly, Missouri, US

Tue, Feb 21, 1939

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