Herman Schwinn, leader of the Los Angeles cell of the Friends of New Germany, was one of the speakers at the last meeting of the Brooklyn Nazi cell in Schwaben Hall, Ridgewood.
Schwinn confined his brief remarks to a eulogy of the soldiers who had given their lives for their respective nations during the World War. His speech was in keeping with the significance of Decoration Day.
W. L. McLaughlin, editor of the English supplement of the Deutsche Zeitung, Nazi weekly organ, “mourned” a number of things.
He “mourned”:
The dead of all nations.
The dead from “our own country” (possibly referring to America).
The German-American elements who gave their lives for the United States.
The strife induced by Untermyer.
The “demise” of two German language papers, the New Yorker Staats Zeitung and New Yorker Herold, which persist in printing the “garbled and distorted: dispatches of American news agencies in Germany with regard to the Nazi situation.
Tin cans were passed to collect funds for the summer camp of American storm troopers.
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