A sharp attack against the allegiance many German Americans have shown to Hitler was contained in an editorial published yesterday by the Nowiny Polskie, local Polish daily.
The editorial defends the action of the American Polish delegation at Warsaw in its refusal to sign the by-laws of what was to become known as the Alliance of the Poles of the World.
“One cannot profess a double national loyalty,” the editorial points out. “One must be politically loyal either to America or to Poland.”
Germans in this country have failed to show such loyalty, the paper continues, explaining that Americans of Polish extraction “gave evidence before the entire world as to their honesty and political maturity.”
“This far surpasses the maturity of Americans of German birth who are forming in America units of Hitler storm troopers,” the editorial declares. “Americans of Polish descent have shown here that they are better American citizens than all so-called Nordic Americans.”
The American delegation to the conference for a world union of Poles living abroad was headed by F. X. Swietlik, dean of the law school of Marquette University in Milwaukee. A fifth of Milwaukee’s population is of Polish descent.
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