Word: hysterias
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...defense corps and rifle clubs that popped up all over the U. S. made it plain that no mere appropriation of money could give the U. S. a sense of security, satisfy the U. S. demand for action. Springing from hysteria, an itch for publicity, a deep-seated fear that official defense measures might be botched, or a resurgence of the old backwoods instinct that nothing so calms a man's nerves as polishing a rifle, defense organizations flourished so widely last week that they belonged, as did fifth-column talk, in the category of a national phenomenon...
...have observed with sympathy your editorial efforts to resist the hysteria which is rising around you. Certainly you have not had much help from your elders, who have chosen to deny the realities of the last twenty years and to return to the exhilarating days of 1917. They have shown no hesitation in turning the classroom into a camp, the lecture hall into a recruiting station. That minority of the faculty which disagrees has been more scrupulous--too scrupulous, I think--and the time has come when we too should speak our minds. It may come as something...
...national defense program has its roots in hysteria and will have its fruits in war. The present European conflict has been built up to such a degree that now it has assumed in the eyes of America the appearance of the greatest crisis in the past 2,000 years. The country has been told insistently that a German victory will threaten our way of life. For years we have been educated to look upon Germany as anti-Christian and uncivilized, bent on world domination. We have come to see the situation too much in black and white, and are thus...
There were cool heads. Deeper than the widely reported hysteria was a grim determination to prepare for anything. One tremendous shift was apparent: the rising wind of world events had for a time at least blown away Isolationism. There were still Isolationists in the U. S. but they were themselves isolated from the feeling of the nation as a whole if not from reality...
...should be no nonsense about it." City College students paraded in Manhattan, with placards protesting war and the R. O. T. C.; 1,000 Dartmouth students wired the President to keep the U. S. out of war; Temple University's student chiefs telegraphed a plea to calm "war hysteria"; Harvard Professor Roger Merriman criticized a student anti-war petition as failing "to see the moral issue"; Stanford students wired Mr. Roosevelt protests at his Pan-American policies; in Manhattan Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon resigned from the Dutch Treat Club because Author Clarence Budington Kelland remarked: "The fifth column...