Bund Menaces Loyal German-Americans, Dorothy Thompson Holds

The German-American Bund constitutes a menace to loyal German-Americans because the “perfectly well grounded suspicion” of the Bund stimulates “distrust of all people of German blood,” it was stated today by Dorothy Thompson in her syndicated N.Y. Herald Tribune column “On the Record.”

In the second of three articles “The Facts of Life,” Miss Thompson emphasizes the subversive and terroristic aims of the Bund, and its methodology of supporting “purely American organizations of a Ku-Klux temper” and of recruiting by “painting a terrific Jewish menace” through wilful misrepresentation of facts about the Jews in the United States. She concludes:

“Given an enormous growth of Nazi-Fascist power elsewhere in the world, these people and their fellow travelers will be a menace in the United States. They are a menace already. First of all, they are a menace to loyal German-Americans. The perfectly well grounded suspicion of them leads to a distrust of all people of German blood, although the overwhelming mass of German-Americans believe in American democracy, Christian civilization and human rights, and detest the Nazis as much as any of the rest of us do. But they are being put in such an ambiguous position that in many places it is difficult for Germans to get jobs. This is just one of the things that ought to be dealt with.”