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...allowed to attack openly such venerable institutions as Wall Street itself, which was good enough for Alexander Hamilton and should be good enough for us. What have our weak, corrupt, immigration authorities to say about the presence in this country of Father Coughlin, the Canadian-born, the arch-alien, un-American Pied Piper, with his wicked song about a central bank? Soviet Russia has a central bank, and Josef Stalin cannot wait until similar Communistic chains are laid across the backs of free Americans...
Japanese nobility is made to consist in sacrificing one's wife to the caresses of a foreigner, in order to rifle that outsider's secret papers. This almost smacks of anti-Oriental propaganda, it is so completely alien to our more prosaic conceptions of heroism, that the Occidental spectator remains rather impassive to the heart-rending close, in which the naval commander who sold his wife for the secrets of the British rule of the waves is made to stab himself most ceremoniously and mortally in spite of his glorious victory. If it comes to frank appraisal, it must...
...French perfectly and without a trace of foreign accent; even my facial features are free of particularly conspicuous racial traits. I am entitled to consider myself assimilated, and I feel sure that there is no element, however subtle, of the French spirit, French honor or French culture which is alien to me. Yet, though I feel myself to be genuinely French, I do, at the same time, feel that I am a Jew. ... I have always known that a Jew can be nothing...
Nobody in the U. S. seemed to know much about the Josefowitz family, but last week Zelik Josefowitz turned up in Zürich, claimed that as a nonresident alien he was not affected by U. S. gold legislation. He said that he had no other U. S. gold hoardings and that his Manhattan attorneys, Katz & Summerich, engaged by transatlantic telephone, were confident that his gold pieces would soon be returned to him. He protested against "fantastic" U. S. newspaper reports of his income, said that neither he nor his family had any U. S. income...
About a third of this gain can be traced to be increased influx of foreign students. A total of 207 men from 46 alien nations and U. S. possessions are now studying here, as compared with 170 in 1934-35. Only 35 foreign countries and U. S. possessions were represented last year...