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Pearl Buck — Part 1

75 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Sep 15, 1958 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Pearl Buck · 74 pages OCR'd
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same resolve for freedom and equalts and British have, but it is a grimmer resolve, for it. includé the determination to be rid of|white rule and exploitation and white race prejudice, and e will weaken this will. ize the force of this will if we have the wisdom. Nothing would nerve our colored allies abroad to put forth their whole effort now as the conviction that white leaders mean what they say about democracy. There is hope even in India that \England would mean what . . she said if she could be got to say it. There are few simple Bis20 1s eee ere things in this world, but at the mbment the simplest, if one 7 is at all familiar with mass thinking among the peoples of Asia, is that our allies there will fight with all their strength _ for real democracy. But if they ard not soon convinced, and - a by unmistakable means, of the sinceke democratic determina- . we tion of the English and Americans,\if they fear that they“ must be reduced one to fighting for then ere 4 will be many thoughtful men and women who will declare - openly what they are now thinking and saying secretly, i “Will it not be better for us to come to terms, not with ; ; Hitler, who is after all a white man of the most arrogant te type, but with Japan, and utilize the military and modern a resources of that country to free us from white rule?” Majesty—Justice—Peace : -. : It takes no great practical sense for any colored people to see that even if Japan took the position over them of conqueror it would be easier to get rid of one victor than of several. There could have been nothing reassuring or comforting to our Asiastic allies in the closing words of 6 ce ne cee en ee 2 pore ee yee ore ee oe tot eee gre
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