The Archive · 1940

(By Air Mail) Portland, Ore., Sept. 8

"The Germans in their victory seem bent on perpetuating hate," declared the "Portland Oregonian" this morning in deploring that Alsatians were being forced to change their names to German equivalents and that the Poles were being used by their Nazi masters as no more than a servant people.

"Imagine some potential Paderewski with his genius suppressed end cleaning stalls in his German masters' stables.

"Such evidences as these of the Nazi capacity for injustice must cause any peace that modern Germany imposes on the vanquished to Members:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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