Word: scapegoat
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Except in case of 100% natural disasters such as earthquakes & typhoons, Japanese ethics demand that when things go radically wrong in the Empire someone should voluntarily make himself the scapegoat. Last week Tokyo censors released the news that last year 6,900 Japanese had to be arrested as "Communist suspects." Things have gone so wrong that the Reds seized were found to include young men & women of high Tokyo society: three daughters of millionaires, the daughters of a peer and a fashionable surgeon, several sons of generals and bankers, a socialite clerk of the Foreign Office, six junior naval officers...
...brokers' loans. In the week of the panic, while frightened outside lenders were scrambling to call their Stock Exchange loans, Chase expanded its loans $373,000,000. It was National City Bank's Charles Edwin Mitchell, a rampant, bull, who became the popular scapegoat of the Crash with his insistence that conditions were fundamentally sound. Rumors that Banker Mitchell was about to quit National City persisted for a year afterward, then faded out. Currently he is in the ascendant, dictating economy to Tammany Hall. Banker Wiggin's troubles came...
...disease; in Vienna. Minister in Bucharest at the start of the War, he later dictated the peace terms to defeated Rumania, aided in forcing the treaty of Brest-Litvosk on Bolshevik Russia. Foreseeing ultimate defeat and consequent disintegration of the Dual Monarchy, he strove for peace, was made a scapegoat for his pains...
During the last ten years the College Entrance Examinations have steadily become more and more firmly established in their office of educational scapegoat. But, like the New York officials whom Judge Seabury has exposed, the academic St. Peters have shown no disposition to be ousted from their jobs by mere verbal denunciation. A committee of the Harvard Board of Overseers, in urging that Harvard discontinue entirely admission by the Old Plan, has now made a definite proposal with real possibilities for improvement...
Browne finds an interesting analogy to Christianity under the Roman Empire. "Like Communism in the twentieth century, the new religion was made the bugaboo and the scapegoat of the age. . . . There was a frowardness about it, a loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size. (The analogy with Communism is disconcertingly close.)" When Christianity became legal, then official, it began what Browne describes as a reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author...