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Excerpt from Civil Liberty in War Time: Paper Presented at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting of the New York State Bar Association, Held in the City of New York on January 17 and 18, 1919
In no field was this temper more evident than in the attitude cre ated by these unofficial organizations toward unnaturalized Germans and austro-hungarians throughout the country. Early in the war these people were naturally regarded by the public as the largest potential element of danger in this country. The expression alien enemy, used in the old internment statute of 1798 to describe these unnaturalized residents, in and of itself carried the impression of hostility to this country. Thousands of intelligent citizens and some important newspapers advocated the internment indis criminately of all alien enemies. And no amount of statistics on their loyalty or of good conduct on the part of this large class of persons seemed to have the effect of lessening the agitation. They were under suspicion by the majority of their neighbors in every community; they were the subject of incessant investigation at the hands of police officials and amateur detectives, and the extent to which their normal lives were interfered with can only be a matter of conjecture.. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
