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An Immigrant's View
Leonard, Oscar | August 17, 1921 issue

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It was one of those Americanization conferences. It was like hundreds of similar gatherings being held all over the land except in one respect, those who promoted the particular conference had exercised the good taste of inviting leaders of various immigrant groups. There were all well-meaning men and women. There were those who felt that the time had arrived when the U.S. must have as her motto, "One People, One Language, One Flag." Some of the speeches grew a bit rabid. People voiced suspicion of any one who spoke English with a foreign accent and looked upon every "foreigner" as a radical ready to overthrow the Government and destroy what the Pilgrim Fathers had built.

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AMERICANIZATION; ASSIMILATION (Sociology); IMMIGRANTS; POLITICAL ethics; CONGRESSES & conventions; UNITED States
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