Local Nazi sympathizers are bemoaning the fact that their literary ambitions have been squelched by orders from New York
Happiness reigned at first among the members of the Milwaukee chapter, friends of the New Germany, when after prolonged striving they succeeded in putting out a propaganda organ of their own.
It was a meager four-page sheet, known as the Wisconsin Beobachter and Observer, half in German, half in English, but it was their own, and they beamed with pride. The happiness, however, was shot-lived.
Orders came through from national headquarters that no local Nazi papers were to be permitted but that all efforts and money must be concentrated on the Deutsche Zeitung, the national organ published in New York.
Sadly the Milwaukee “Friends” submitted. They were granted, however, an occasional page in the Deutsche Zeitung in which to present their news or literary outpourings. But there have been mumblings or protest, it is reported on the ground that a local organ would have strengthened the movement here. The protests have gone unheeded.
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