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...Yellow Peril...
...crescendo : "We won the War. though by the narrowest possible margin. But already we are confronted with another danger at least as great, the pacifist movement. If the men and women of this Nation do not get together and stop that movement, our National security will soon become National peril, such as prevailed in 1914 and 1915, when I had the honor of preventing it from ending in National disaster." How had the Admiral nearly given his life and honor for his country? When had he stood at the thin red line dividing victory from defeat? Careful listeners...
From the St. Paul Dispatch, there appeared a highly amusing story, by Reporter Julian Sargent, about "the girl of the athletic nose" ; from the Baltimore Sun, an ingenious piece involving a Chinaman whom the police mistook for a Yellow Peril when he did his own surveying for a new laundry...
Anchored in conservatism, English art lets the tide pull, lets the wind go over; the name of Cezanne is a peril avoided, Modernism the mutter of a storm that never broke. Last week, at the opening of the Royal Academy's exhibition, the quality found with gratification that their Art was still safe, a painted ship upon a painted...
Newspapers of all political creeds, except of course the Communist, ap proved the finding of the Court, warned the country of the ever-pres ent Red peril, urged severe measures for the public safety...