The literary digest . lltheir sons to the American Army, werehounded as traitors because they couldnot speak English. Even the Army itself Avas not without itspart in this of supersensitiAepatriotism. Young men of A^arious op-prest nationalities of Austria - HungaryA^olunteered early in the war and asked forservice in France. These ardent spirits,says Mr. Creel, many of whom had notbeen in this country long enough to learnEnglish, Avere put into companies ofcasuals and set at menial tasks in theA^arious camps. Even tho they couldnot have been put at once into English-speaking companie

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The literary digest . lltheir sons to the American Army, werehounded as traitors because they couldnot speak English. Even the Army itself Avas not without itspart in this of supersensitiAepatriotism. Young men of A^arious op-prest nationalities of Austria - HungaryA^olunteered early in the war and asked forservice in France. These ardent spirits,says Mr. Creel, many of whom had notbeen in this country long enough to learnEnglish, Avere put into companies ofcasuals and set at menial tasks in theA^arious camps. Even tho they couldnot have been put at once into English-speaking companies, this treatment humil-iated them, and was a waste of fightingenergy. And all the while, he con-tinues, the foreign-born, patiently, in-domitably, were writing a record of de-votion shot through with service andsacrifice: In MilAvaukee a group of Polish womenevolved an idea that spread all OAer theUnited States into every racial order that their husbands might fight, The Literary Digest f»r March 8, 1919 95.

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