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Pearl Buck — Part 1
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new era. Whether it will be a golden age of democracy =
depends on whether we choose democracy now.- --~ ---'--->>-
We know this better than we are willing to acknowledge. -
It must be sternly said that it is the white peoples who have
the deepest race prejudices. This is in itself a sign of in-
security and fear. And we do well to be afraid if we intend
to persist blindly in our prejudices. If we plan to persist
7 St as we are, then we are fighting on the wrong side in this
war. We belong with Hitler. For the white man can no
longer rule in this world unless he rules by totalitatian
military force. Democracy cannot so rule. Democracy if
it is to prevail at this solemn moment in human history can
do so only if it purges itself of that which denies democracy,
if it dares to act as it believes.
"Bier WAS. he A wlan ee
(Reprinted .from ASIA MAGAZINE, March 1942)
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