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are deported. Civil liberties are
trampled upon by the authorities.
Neighbors are urged to spy on each
other. A revolutionary speaker is
dragged from a soapbox and beaten
to death by an angry, patriotic mob.
BROUN continues to speak, but no
longer briefly, in favor of patriotism
and against foreign fascism. Under
the cloak of war patriotism, domes-
tic fascism is introduced. American
orchestras refuse to play Bach, Bee-
thoven, Wagner and Brahms. Sauer-
kraut is re-baptized ‘liberty cab-
bage,’ and frankfurters are hence-
forth known, as the result of a
presidential decree, as ‘democracy
sausages.’ A million American boys
are torn to shreds by high explosive
shells; their lungs are rotted by
poisonous gases. The streets of
America are once more filled with
armless and legless cripples begging
for alms. America’s late allies once
more repudiate their war debts. The
country experiences another cata-