...German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit 361 I and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to...tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot df German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, :rrench- Americans, Scandinavian- Americans...

...this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else. 20 The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation...GermanAmericans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French2 5 Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality,...

...or Polish or Hungarian traditions. The one certain way of bringing the nation to ruin, he declared, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, was to permit it to become "a tangle of squabbung nationalities," an intricate knot of German-Americans,...

...absolutely certain way of bringing the Church to ruin and prevent all possibility of its continuing a Church at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling sectarianisms, an intricate knot of Dutch-ReformedCatholics, Episcopalian-Catholics, Buddhist-Catholics...

..."English" or "French" before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our loyalty must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly...intricate knot of German-Americans, IrishAmericans, English- Americans, French-Americans, ScandinavianAmericans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving...

...one comes and goes without responsibility. We were tending to become, as Theodore Roosevelt put it: A tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate...Scandinavian-Americans, or Italian-Americans, each possessing its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality...

...parents, he declared that the one absolutely certain way of ruining this country would be 390 THE WEEK to permit it to become " a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish- Americans, English-Americans, French- Americans, Scandinavian-Americans, or Italian-Americans,...

...religious intolerance, and a rejection of the ideal of the "melting pot." As Theodore Roosevelt once said, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of it continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities,...

...and allocate jobs and contracts and college admissions on that basis. Theodore Roosevelt once said the one absolutely certain way of bringing this Nation...ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate...

...in one national mold. That was Teddy Roosevelt who said that one. He also said: The absolutely one certain way of bringing this Nation to ruin, of preventing...of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German Americans, Irish Americans, English Americans, French Americans, Scandinavian Americans, or...