PRO=GERMANS IN U.S.
A. SENSATIONAL SPEECH
NEW YORK, August 17. Mr Elihu Root created an enormous sensation by a speech condemning the lenieucy shown to proGermaiis in the United States. He stated; _■- "Pro-German traitors in and •V: ont.'of Congress are endeavour•s ing to make America's prepara- • "':tions so ineffective that our will meet with defeat . 'the .firing line, they are Covering themselves with the ■--cloak of pretended Americanism. If we ere competent and :£fll:'ior our liberty we should «find them out and get at them. ;; ;There are men in New York who ■fought to be shot to-morrow at for treason. There are New York editors deserving of execution for treason, ■ and sooner or later they will :^!get it."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17066, 20 August 1917, Page 5
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