[valkyrieanne]

Did these Italian and Greek schoolbooks teached that too?

Of course not, because Italian and Greek immigrants all went to the same public schools, where (in the early 20th century, at least) they read *patriotic* American textbooks & literature. In English.

[muawiyah]

Sometime in the 1930s the Italian, Greek and Balkan anarchists quit tossing bombs at each other and the police and began to settle down and become real Americans.

If Mexican immigrants caused half the mayhem the Italians and Greeks caused in the 1920s we would be putting them on trucks and shipping them back left and right.

That's why I raised the bait - to see if anyone had any recall of why those folks were sbject to such criticism at the time.