Transcript: (sorry for the language!)
Speaker: āI see negroes holding jobs that belong to me! And you! Iāll ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, whatās gonna become of us real Americans!ā
Hungarian man with clear foreign accent: āIāve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.ā
Young man: āThis man seems to know what heās talking about.ā
Speaker: āWhat are us real Americans gonna do about it? Youāll find it right here in this little pamphletāthe truth about negroes and foreigners! The truth about the Catholic Church! Youāll findā¦ā [audio grows quieter as camera shifts to the onlookers]
Hungarian man: āYou believe in that kind of talk?ā
Young man: āI dunno, it makes pretty good sense to me.ā
Speaker: āAnd I tell you, friends, weāll never be able to call this country our own until itās a country without⦠without what?ā
Other man: āYeah? Without what?ā
Speaker: āWithout negroes, without alien foreigners,āāthe young man is nodding, following alongāāwithout Catholics, without Freemasons! You know theseā¦ā
Young man: āWhatās wrong with the Masons, Iām a Mason.ā Looks to European man worriedly, āhey, that fellowās talking about me!ā
Huungarian man: āAnd that makes a difference, doesnāt it.ā
Speaker: āThese are your enemies! These are the people who are trying to take over our country! Now you know them, you know what they stand for. And itās up to you and me to fight them!ā A bunch of the onlookers in the vicinity wave him off like heās crazy and turn away, āfight them and destroy them before they destroy us!ā
Speaker: āThank you.ā
One man in the now somewhat awkward crowd: āclapsā
Young man: *is visibly uncomfortable*
Hungarian man: āBefore he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him.ā
Young man: āWell yes but, he was talking about⦠what about those other people?ā *the pair sit down on a park bench*
Hungarian man: āIn this country, we have no āother people.ā We are American people, of course.ā
Young man: āWhat about you? You arenāt American, are you?ā
Hungarian man: āI was born in Hungary. But now, I am an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.ā
Young man: āWhat were you doing there?ā
Hungarian man: āI was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we have heard today. But I was a fool, then. I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it was not so. You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country, so they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.ā