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Ever since the passage of the Japanese Exclusion amendment to the new immigration bill, the unfortunate reactions which most persons anticipated at the time have been developing precisely as foreseen. Tokio news dispatches report numerous and violent mob demonstrations, and foreign correspondents tell of various petty discourtesies indicative of a feeling of bitter resentment on the part of minor officials. The latest bit of popular protest is the suicide of a active before the gates of the American Embassy...
...Chancellor's words, wrote himself into history, because the British Empire went to war to uphold the sanctity of inter national contracts and for other very good but less moving reasons. When the news that Britain had declared war on Germany became known in Berlin, an unruly mob assembled outside the British Embassy. The Kaiser apologized for the disturbances, said that they plainly showed the state of feeling of the German people. He asked the Ambassador to tell King George that he was very proud of his titles of Field Marshal in the British Army and of Admiral...
Amid a crowd of 10,000 Chinese, gathered to watch the parades and incense-burning, Mr. Six produced the inevitable occidental camera and started to take snapshots. The devotees of Mercy mobbed the amateur photographer and beat him senseless. Chinese Christian converts from a neighboring missionary school rescued Mr. Six by kidnapping the leaders of the mob and threatening them with death if the antiforeign rioting did not cease...
...author, W. J. Turner, seems to seek the allegorical representation of the idea that only an outcast deserted by the squeamish mob, can be true to his own greatness. But he has smothered it in stale epigrams...
Once their leader was incarcerated, however, the enthusiasm of his followers broke the bonds provided by the visual example of his personal restraint, and the original "soul force" degenerated into mob violence. Gandhi, in prison, was helpless, and watched with a breaking heart the falling ruins of his ideal, as the swaragists exceeded his carefully planned limits and began a campaign of civil disobedience which has apparently ended in at least temporary failure...