The United States must not adopt toward its millions of German and Italian-Americans the attitude taken by Britain toward refugees, Norman Angell, Nobel peace prize winner and noted author, warns in an article “Refugees Can Be Assets” in the latest issue of The Nation.
Denouncing the British internment policy preventing thousands of anti-Hitlerites from participating in the British war effort, Angell says the United States must not consider all German-Americans and Italian-Americans as spies and enemies. The vast majority of them are capable of being organized into a thoroughly anti-totalitarian body, staunchly upholding American democracy and able to keep any disloyal minority in order, he asserts.
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