A WORD FOR GERMANY
MR. WILLKIE
LAND OF HIS FORBEARS
"I HATE TYRANNY"
WHY ANCESTORS LEFT
LONDON, February 5, Before Mr. Wendell" Willkie left England in the early hours of this morning on the first stage of his homeward journey to America, he left the following striking message for transmission to the German people:— "My family name is not Willkie, but Willcke," he said. "I am of purely German descent. My grandparents left Germany 90 years ago in protest against autocracy and be-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 10
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83A WORD FOR GERMANY Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 10
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