and it is quite clear that the activities of the Friends of New Germany, insofar as they have heretofore come to the public notice, do not contemplate a continuance of a republican form of government, but, on the contrary, seek to extol and make popular in the United States alien ideology and a form of government which the American people have never tolerated….
CALLED ARROGANT
“Whether or not we can assume at this time that the incorporation of this society is fraught with more than ordinary danger to our institutions is unnecessary to consider, if we bear in mind the fact that the leaders of this movement are arrogant, viciously and brazenly impudent in taking advantage of our democracy, for the purpose of bringing about its destruction.
“The Court is undoubtedly aware of the fact that this organization, if it succeeds in obtaining the sanction of a Justice of the Supreme Court, will proclaim to the world at large that it has complied with all rules and regulations necessary to achieve its objects under our laws and had obtained a formal approval by a Judge of this Court for its purposes. This should not be allowed in a case of an organization which definitely and unequivocally seeks to engage in subversive activities, not to sustain the Constitution of the United States, but to undermine and destroy it….
MEMBERS ARE ALIEN
“The majority of the membership of the Friends of New Germany are aliens and recent arrivals in the United States, and those of them who are citizens are recent citizens who admit a ‘double allegiance’ both to Germany and to the United States….
“… the Friends of New Germany is nothing else but an agency of the German National Socialist Party and … its object of maintaining activity in the United States or seeking incorporation under the laws of this State can be nothing else but to act as the representative of that party and its philosophy and ideology in this country, a philosophy contrary to the laws and spirit of the American institution and at variance with our form of government.”
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