AMERICAN NATIONALISM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18199, 21 March 1921, Page 5

AMERICAN NATIONALISM

FOREIGN-BORN DISTURBERS CONDEMNED. ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS IN NEW YORK. Frees Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, March 19. (Received March 20, at 5.5 p.xn.) Extraordinary scenes of enthusiasm were witnessed at 'a patriotic rally organised by the American Veterans’ Association as a reply to a recent mass meeting which was held by German sympathisers—ostensibly to protest against the use of black troops in the Rhine area—but at which Sinn Feiners joined the Germans in reviling President Wilson, American institutions, and the Allies, and from which American soldiers were ejected by the police for protesting against the speeches. To-night 14,000 people packed the Madison Square Gardens and thousands were turned away. The speakers were continually cheered when they declared that the true American was bitterly resentful of any attempts by hyphenates to cause friction between the United States and the Allies. ■> General Pershing said that America must insist that outlawed nations must bo held to their full responsibility and made to pay the penalty for their misdeeds. He declared: “We object to foreign-born persons whether German or Irish/attempting to decide American questions for foreign reasons.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.