• Tags: Babel Defiance
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Luana citizen notes the town's large numbers of Germans and their intransigence in speaking the language, especially during church services.
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German hasn't stopped, especially in places like "Soft Drink Parlor[s]." Can we penalize this?
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Mother of son in service writes of Germans continuing to speak in German, even in light of recent soldier funeral.
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Is Babel still in place? If they can still speak German, "why did we enter the war?"
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Wentz and Probst overheard: Probst said he "would talk German when he D--n pleased." Probst grabs brick and walks out before violence, with Wentz saying he was "too big a coward to talk German on the street."
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Telephone operator notes German defiance, as they say they can "speak whatever they want," citing "Predisent [sic] Wilson [saying] that they could talk the german [sic] over the Telephones."
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Local lawyer notes Germans ubiquity, even following Babel.
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Minister, named Christian Wolters, remarked from pulpit that "heathens were now trying to make them [Germans] use the heathen language."
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