Answer:
A. reminded lately of a 1949 political cartoon with the caption “Fire!” that pictured a hysterical man racing up a ladder with a bucket of water to extinguish the torch on the Statue of Liberty.
B.The cartoon warned against the hysteria that was gripping the country in the midst of the escalating Cold War,
C. reminding Americans that while our fears may be justified, sometimes our solutions
— like dousing the flame of liberty
— are irrational.
D.In this case, the image was referencing the House Un-American Affairs Committee (HUAC) investigations of Hollywood, which may have satisfied certain political ends, but hardly made America safer from the real threat of the Soviet Union.
In another moment of fear and hysteria, two months after the Japanese Invasion of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed an executive order that interned more than 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast, more than 70,000 of whom were American-born U.S. citizens who had committed no crime except having been born to Japanese parents.
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