SCAPEGOATS
“The first impulse in dealing with mysterious evil is to find a scapegoat. There are such well-known scapegoats as the Russian Soviets, always available to certain types of mind as the cause of almost anything, and among Communists there is always the capitalist system to blame things on. Then there are the international bankers who are a kind of omnibus scapegoat.
I am glad to report that this crisis has not yet been attributed to the Pope. At the more rational levels of the public mind . . . are those who feel that there must be some central source of the troubles about which, once it is located, something effective should promptly be done. They are not agreed as to what the exact trouble is nor on the remedy, nor indeed as to whether anyone knows the trouble or the remedy. They are agreed, however,, that it is the kind of problem which could be cured by a specific remedy applied to a specific cause.”—Mr Walter Lippman until recently editor of the New York World, writing in “ Vanity Fair.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3328, 28 July 1931, Page 3
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178SCAPEGOATS Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3328, 28 July 1931, Page 3
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