Tuesday, February 14, 2006

 

News Stories That Never Appeared

Former Vice President John Nance Garner traveled to Berlin, Germany on November 12, 1944 and gave a speech the next day to the Berlin chapter of the National Socialists and German Worker's Party criticizing the United States Government for its arrest, trial by tribunal and execution of several German citizens. Garner said it was unconscionable that on June 27, 1942, the Federal Bureau of Investigation rounded up these eight German citizens and held them in intolerable conditions. The Germans were doing nothing more than visiting America and were guilty only of mere technical violations of visa requirements and immigration law. Certainly nothing worth execution, said Garner.

I could write more, but I hope you get the point.

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