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Thousands of women and children deluded into peril by the White hope of General Wrangel, he succored. His was the first balm to heal the wounds of fire at Smyrna. Grimly he protected U. S. interests at Lusanne conferences. And last year he was the first diplomat to call on Mustafa Kemal, President of New Turkey...
...This project is a liquidation of the past. No other Government in our place could do otherwise. We are in the presence of peril. I do not like inflation any more than you do, but I felt when the first 4,000,000,000 francs of additional issue were authorized a few months ago we should then have made the amount...
...explosion of the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire. One marvels, in view of all the enormous difficulties with which Count Burián had to contend, how the Austrian Government (the Hungarian Government voted against war) ever dared to expose the tottering Empire to what was a known peril...
...CHALLENGE OF ASIA-Stanley Rice-Scribner ($2.25). Once more the bugaboo of the Yellow Peril appears. The adjective yellow is admittedly loosely used, for the Asiatics are of a variety of hues. The author knows his subject, believes that the real challenge of Asia is concerned with dignity-a "desire that their voices shall count in the world's councils." The races of Asia mean to be respected; and, to ensure this, they aim to increase their material prosperity with the object of strengthening their political power. The white man evidently has the alternative of treating the yellow...
...opinions of their own and merely reflect their surroundings--Laodiceans, neither hot nor cold--spineless drifters without self-direction--still they have an effect, and may both prevent the spread of right thought and promote a mischievous course. They are a shitting cargo in the ship of state, a peril if the bulkheads break...