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Witches' Broth. Private Borchers' letter landed plop in the midst of the West's most violent racial hysteria since "Yellow Peril" pioneer days. The 112,000 U.S. Japanese evacuated from the West Coast had become the object of hatred more intense than the anti-German-American feeling of World War I. The U.S. mortally hates and fears the Jap; but the furiously boiling stew had many other ingredients. Professional patriots, demagogues and sensational newspapers, led by the Hearst press, were vigorously stirring the witches' broth...
...measured, prayerful words, the President proclaimed Jan. 1, 1944 a "day of prayer to give thanks to Almighty God for His constant providence over us in every hour of national peace and national peril.. . . May we humbly seek strength and guidance for the problems of widening warfare and for the responsibilities of increasing victory...
...Lebanese were allowed to elect an ardently nationalist government. Last week their Parliament voted, in effect, to end the mandate, take over full control from French colonial officials. Sensitive Gaullists, feeling their oats and smarting under unsatisfactory relations with Britain and the U.S., cried "plot,", saw the beginning of peril for their empire...
...Story. Newspapers from coast to coast last week woke up to the peril all at once. Al Capone's Chicago hit the week's journalistic high when the Hearst Herald-American assigned six reporters, some armed with revolvers, to nose out back-alley stills, track down highjackers, and publicize ceiling violators. They seemed to find plenty to justify the American's screaming red headlines: highjackings running up to $100,000 a month, a wave of liquor-store holdups, petty racketeers glad to blab about Michigan farmers who "buy anything short of a hair rinse," bellhops getting...
Rhodes Scholars, solemnly charged the Tribune, are a group of subversive masterminds and intellectual saboteurs banded together in a "secret society" which constitutes a national peril.* Said the Tribune, wheezing with rage: "The Rhodes Scholars, whose education was intended to promote the betrayal of the U.S., have infiltrated our Federal Government. . . . The Scholarships were created to corrupt Americans...