POLITICAL NOTES: Wrathful Decade

On April 6, 1927, the tenth anniversary of U. S. entrance into the World War, there was a verbal furor in U. S. magazines—particularly in the monthly reviews prepared well in advance—on the failure of peace and the possibility of a new super-struggle. Asia, of course, was picked as the seat of the next world broil—with the brooding Balkans as an alternative. The World's Work, for example, devoted nearly its entire April issue to such subjects as: "Fever Spots in the World's Politics," "Where the Next World War will Start," "How We...