The German American Bund in Gasconade County Missouri
A newspaper article published in the Bland Courier on October 26, 1939 covered a address given by a Democrat U.S. Representative from Indiana, Louis Ludlow. In this article, a man named Charles P. Stewart covered what Ludlow described in his statement. Ludlow said that “THERE IS a great unassimilated alien mass in the United States.” The article later mentions a bill that Ludlow had proposed in which immigrants can immigrate to the United States, but must apply for citizenship within a year of their immigration or risk being deported. Stewart later claims that “you can’t recognize that Communistic cells, Nazi bunds and Fascist groups are importations, and it’s hard not to suspect that they’re encouraged from over the water.” Stewart additionally asserts to be a part of the Ku Klux Klan, and that he does not “see what’s to be done as to a German-American of several generations standing if he joins, say, a bund.” Ar the end of the article, Stewart recognizes and confirms what Ludlow had mentored at the beginning in that a “foreigner who isn’t even naturalized?-who’s just sent here to make trouble?-he’s an obvious dammed nuisance. He’s the chaos whom Louis Ludlow is on the trail of.”
Below, is a series of three screenshots covering the newspaper article by Stewart in Bland, Missouri.
