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With the outbreak of WWII there were many people going around saying "Mitchell told you so!" However, in his views about possible war with Japan and Germany, Mitchell was not original. There was a mercernary cum author named Homer Lea who after having served for Sun Yat Sen in China wrote a book titled "The Valor of Ignorance", in which he went into great detail about the upcoming war. This book was published in or about 1907. It's very possible that Mitchells' views may have been colored by this book. It still makes for interesting reading and shows how the concept of "race" was a major factor to the average citizen.
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