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Seeking Harding Visit

Asking Harding to give a speech on the war in Urbana, Iowa.

Tags: 1918; Methodism; Patriotism; Public Speeches; World War I

Letter congratulating Harding on Proclamation and recent speeches on rooting out pro-Germanism

Tags: 1918; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Public Speeches; World War I

Clarifying Babel, in favorable light and with emphasis on Bohemians in Benton

Tags: Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Bohemians; Council of Defense; German Language; Propaganda; Religion; World War I

Full-throated support, as it is "hard to make [Germans] behave."

Tags: 1918; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; Education; German Language; World War I

Norwegian Lutheran Church support for Babel Proclamation

Tags: 1918; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; Lutheranism; Norwegian Americans; World War I

"Hard feelings" arisen in Danish-American communities on account of Babel

Tags: 1918; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; Danish Americans; World War I

Members of Evangelical community seeking permission to preach in German

Tags: 1917; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Religion; World War I

Pre-Babel concerns regarding use of German and German-language schools, from Assistant Attorney General.

Tags: 1917; Anti-German Sentiment; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; Education; German Language; Washington, D.C.; World War I

Maybe a prelude to Babel! Responder notes that Spencer brings up issues of "foreign language schools" for first time and that he'll look into it.

Tags: 1917; Council of Defense; German Language; Loyalty; World War I

Suspicions over German-American loyalties, pre-Babel.

Tags: 1917; Council of Defense; Education; German Language; Loyalty; World War I