With a brave show of defiance of the plebiscite commission’s orders prohibiting mass demonstrations, more than 10,000 German Front Saarlanders gathered at the railroad station here today to greet 380 Americans who arrived to vote on January 13.
The occasion was turned into a triumphal parade in which the American Saarlanders, 300 of whom are eligible to vote in the plbeiscite, marched for half a mile through streets lined with cheering throngs of Nazi adherents. The paraders were led by a 73-year-old woman, Katherine Oberst of Los Angeles. As they trudged through the city, bearing heavy suitcases, they were serenaded by lusty Nazi songsters singing “Deutschland Uber Alles.”
HULL MOVE BRINGS SILENCE
Philip Woll, New York organizer of the trip, was quoted as saying, “Naturally we are going to vote for the return of the Saar to Germany.” He refused to comment when informed that back in the United States Secretary Hull had been asked to take action which would deprive members of his and similar groups of their citizenship on the grounds that by voting in an alien country they are being false to their pledge as American citizens.
The impromptu hoopla over the arrival of the American Saarlanders served to take some of the grimness out of the population’s aspect over the approaching plebiscite.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
