By BUD FISHER
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LEADERS DESERT CONGRESS
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ALSATIANS TOLD TO DROP FRENCH NAMES
THE RUTHLESSNESS of Nazi efforts to con- vert Alsace-Lorraine, proclaimed in France as "the dearest provinces" of that country just before their Resignation from Con- re-annexation by Germany into German provinces gress of Mr. Munshi, for- is significantly illustrated by a document which mer Home Minister in reached the New York "Herald Tribune" recently.
It is a Bombay Congress Its authenticity cannot be doubted. Government, followed by letter from a German police official in charge at that of Dr. Satyapal, who Strasbourg to an Alsatian living in a neighbouring was a member of the district and contains the "request" that the ad- Punjab Legislative As- dressee drop his French name and adopt a German A translation of the letter, dated sembly, is regarded by one, "or else." competent observers last February, follows in part:— an indication of growing dissatisfaction with Mr. Gandhi's policy amongst his own followers.
In a resignation statement the Press, upon which fluential Congress
organ
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parole and for facilities to carry on business from goal. They are
securing heavy Contracts for
"You have omitted hitherto to appear before the district com- missary in authority for your place of residence and put in an their relatives and seeking Gov application for you and your ernment employment for thein, family to change your French Dr. Satyapal expressed com- name. In the now German Alsace the in-plete lack of confidence in the it is unbearable that citizens have
Profession French name,
of "Hin-civil disobedience movement and a
to Germandom is con- dustan Standard" congratulated stated that Congress had convert- loyalty him. Dr. Satyapal pertinently ed itself into a "righ's dictator- tingent upon having a German name. On Alsatian territory asks: "What harm can accrue stup." from our helping the British to
newspaper, "Tri- there must be a particular clarity save us from the bune," which is also a Congress in every respect; those who still win a war to
name manifest a evil fate of foreign invasion." organ, gives currency to a report have a French
President has, French attitude. He suggests that non-coopera that the Congress tion by Congress is more appar- expressed his dissatisfaction with he stares the civil real because
disobedience movemen ent than Congressmeri
-- British are pestering thel in a letter to Gandhi.
for release gao! authorities
on Wireless.
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"A Duty"
The writer gees so far as to tell the addressee that it is his duty "as a patriot" to change his name. "Every one who wishes his home- land and his people well must regard it as his patriotic duty to adopt a German name" the letter Cont nues. In doing this he erects the
his inemorial to grandest fathers and forefathers. Hereby
more offered you
are once
chance to produce evidence of your German way of thinking."
It seems that the German off- cint had some doubts about the effectiveness of his argument, for he assumed a threatening tone in the last part of the letter: "For the last time you are requested here- EIGHT with to move WITHIN DAYS for a change of your French first or family name be- fore the Bureau of the District Commissary on
March, 1941,
at 3 p.m. and submit the reason for your refusal.
"You non-appearance in that In your being case will reault brought before the commissary by force. Signed '.
It may be noted that the letter provides. for a change of the French first or family name of indicates the addressee, which that it is a copy of a circular let- ter which probably was sent out in numbers.
The pressure brought on these former citizens of France to adopt German names recalls the storm of indignation that swept Ger- many when Benito Mussolini or- the families in dered German formerly Austrian Tyrol to adopt Italian names after the Italians annexed that region as a result of the Treaty of St. Germain in 1919.
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