Thousands of German-Americans gathered in the Labor Lyceum in Brooklyn, Sunday night, to celebrate German Day, a fete commemorating the 250th anniversary of the landing of the earliest German immigrants in this country.
Although a large police guard lined the halls of the Labor Lyceum, the celebration went off without suggestion of disorder. The success of the affair was described by those who attended as merely a preliminary to the occasion of the German Day celebration which will be held in Madison Square Garden on December 6.
Both Aryan and Jewish Germans attended the fete in Brooklyn, at which slight reference was made to current conditions in Germany. The fact that no representatives of the German diplomatic corps attended made unnecessary the display of the swastika, and all reference to racial and political distinctions were suppressed.
The meeting was marked by speeches by officials of various German vereins, while the program was successfully carried out with numerous renditions of folk songs by Brooklyn singing societies.
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