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Eager to adjourn, the House virtually ignored two soldierly British textile champions. "The yellow peril is now upon us in a far more insidious form than war!" cried Lieut.-Commander Frederick W. Astbury. "Unless the Government can take immediate action every calico print ing plant in Lancashire will be closed within five years...
...French Press echoed approval. A Foreign Office spokesman announced: "Yesterday, Germany was regarded as a peril. Dare anyone suppose today that it is France and her allies who are troubling peace...
...Deal in the White House? Controlled inflation, the policy of the hour-whose policy is it, if not his? And looking out upon the Pacific he may sometimes see the smoke of a fleet which he has always urged must be ready to fend off the Yellow Peril...
...Joseph Hergesheimer, vice president of Peerless Motor Co., published a book about current economic evils called The Voice of Young America (Scribner- $1.00). Said he: "I'm not a radical like Corliss Lamont. I'm a capitalist, but not their kind. I can see a lot more peril from the right wingers than from the left. I don't condemn people who have earned their wealth by giving something in return. Henry Ford is one of those. But I call 'privocrats' those who become rich through the exploitation of public monopolies. . . . That shot, now, applies...
Essex's friend, Southampton, anxious to waken him to his peril and to win the support of the people, turned to a certain new dramatist all London was acclaiming. The crowds storming the Globe to see "Henry IV" had already applauded the wish that Essex might return from Ireland "bring rebellion broached on his sword:" only Shakespeare could waken their enthusiasm again, and show Essex his danger and his opportunity. And so the "History of King Richard II" was put on the boards on the Bankside, with a double moral for its time. The audience beheld the tyranny of Hereford...