Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand men who served their country in the great World War, I am writing to protest against your eulogy of the Australian radical, Harry Bridges, particularly in view of the inaccuracies contained in the article in question [TIME, July 19]. Real Americans are interested in ridding this country of alien agitators who impose upon our hospitality and who attempt to destroy the very government under which they live and have their being, and yet we find a national publication doing much to offset our own activities and to place upon a pedestal a man whose name is anathema...
From a charitable standpoint, I am inclined to the belief that you have been "sold a bill of goods" by the alien Australian...
...West Coast press has undoubtedly gained him more friends than enemies. As in the Presidential campaign last year, the workers began to suspect that if a man was so hated by Capital he must have considerable to offer to Labor. Privately and publicly damned as a communist, an alien agitator, a ruthless doctrinaire, an unscrupulous wrecker with a lust for power, Harry Bridges has become, in three years, the bogey man of the Pacific...
...suspicious, self-assured attitude comes naturally, for despite the publicity value of attacks made on him, Harry Bridges has had to endure what is pretty close to persecution. Innumerable attempts have been made to have him deported, although his immigration status cannot be challenged. Like many another resident alien, he filed first papers for citizenship, then let them lapse. As soon as the waiting period is up on his third set of first papers he may apply for citizenship. Government authorities have dutifully checked charges of false identity, of subversive activities, of a criminal record in Australia-and have given...
...Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Cardinal Mundelein tore into the Nazi Government: "The fight is to take the [2,000,000 German] children away from us. ... Perhaps you will ask how it is that a nation of 60,000,000 people, intelligent people, will submit in fear and servitude to an alien, an Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one at that, I am told. . . . During and after the World War the German Government complained bitterly of the propaganda aimed at it by the Allies concerning atrocities perpetrated by German troops. Now the present German Government is making use of this same kind...