If Henry Leonidas Stevens Jr. of Warsaw, N. C., Commander of the American Legion (TIME, Sept. 12), should suddenly resign with the announcement that he had just discovered that his grandfather was a Negro, it would cause no more commotion in the U. S. than shook Germany last week at the news about Col. Düsterberg. Germany's Legion is the Stahlhelm, an organization of 1,000,000 veterans which plays politics frankly, drills on all occasions, was organized by a retired soda-water manufacturer named Franz Seldte and is drilled by...
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