“I don’t believe it.”
“Ask him. My sources of information are reliable.”
“Can I get a copy of the bill?”
“Here’s a rough outline of it. It is n’t fully decided on yet, as to details.”
“Who drew it up?”
“The Reverend Theo Gunst, Henry Dolge, and Professor Brender, of the German Department at Old Central, on the basis of a plan which Herr Professor Koerner left when he was here. It’s one of the moves in the development of ‘Deutschturn.’ Have you ever seen the Germanizing scheme for Centralia gotten up in the eighties?”
“No. I’ve heard there was such a thing.”
“Colonization up to a certain point. Then the establishment of a Little Germany through making German the official language of the schools, the courts, and the Legislature. Peaceful conquest idea.”
“And this bill is a revival of that plan, you think?”
“It has that appearance. Will The Guardian support it?”