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German Language Inset_1April1915.pdf

German-Language Inset in Largely English-Language paper during World War I. The title says: "This section is for family members who prefer to read German."
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Charles Keyes takes family--with wife Sarah, nee Naumann--to Germany for academic year in 1912. Written on board the ocean liner to Britain.
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Support for Babel. Foreign languages should be "studied only for their cultural values or as accomplishments."
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Patriotic letter in support of language ban, as "where would freedom be found in our world today, if we had depended on Scandinavia and Germany to secure it for us?"
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Keyes writes American family from Duesseldorf. He talks about the journey from London to Germany.
Deutschland and America_23July1879.pdf

Editorial on German Americans and Immigration
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Jacob Naumann's account book from the mid-nineteenth century, showing Naumann's transition from German to English as a language of both public business and personal memory.
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The letter is written by Herbert J. Metcalf, Secretary for the Council of National Defense in Iowa. He is targeting German-Americans and any German sympathizers. He wants to collect a list of any book that is in any way pro-German.
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