Declaring that the swastika, Nazi national emblem, is “an un-American symbol that constitutes an insult to the Jewish comrades within our ranks,” the Federation of German and Austrian War Veterans last night repulsed efforts of certain members of that body to align with the Friends of New Germany.
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