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The Truth About the American Legion

Warner, Arthur | July 13, 1921 issue

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Presents tendencies in the American Legion appear to be away from the violence and intimidation described in the previous article, but as there noted, the change is one of practice, not principle of manners, not morals. The Legion is still imbued with the spirit of repression and coercion, of prejudice and unreason, which the war nourished; but it has to heed the cry of "Back to normal," which the rest of the community is raising, and is beginning to clothe the nakedness of its purposes in peace-time garments. "Back to normal," means back to a public sentiment which will tolerate almost anything but the "roughneck."

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AMERICAN Legion; UNITED States -- Social conditions; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; SOCIAL history; DISCRIMINATION; UNITED States

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