The New York Times today, reporting that a project is is now taking shape in Washington for the formation of an American Foreign Legion composed of refugees now in this country, expressed the hope in editorial that “the plan may be carried out.”
“About 2,000,000 citizens of the other United Nations are now in this country.” the editorial says. “Those from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Yugoslavia and the Netherlands are here because they were driven out of their homelands. Russians exiled by the Stalin Government are not unwilling to fight against Hitler…. Three hundred and fifteen thousand “enemy aliens” from Germany, 402,000 from Austria and Hungary, include many stalwart men who have proved at great personal risk their hatred of Hitlerism…. We are all comrades in this war. We may well remain so when the war is ended.”
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