has chosen to ignore demands made by prominent Jews and non-Jews from every part of the country that it refuse to play host to the Nazi stalwarts.
Not only has the hotel refused to heed the angry voice of protest, but it has made certain financial concessions to the Hitler-ueber-America organization which have rendered the hostelry an unusually attractive gathering place for bigots, if a somewhat unsavory home-from-home for others.
Louis Zahne, chairman of the German American Independent Voters League and “public relations director” of the Friends of New Germany, was expected at the Chicago session. Zahne is now making a junket through the Middle West, attempting to establish branches of the political organization.
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