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eet ee entree panies ceeds ee bate As an American I should deplore any such thing, and yet the world needs this sort of clarification. Democracy now suffers from vagueness because of the lack of relation between principle and action. With all the evils that Hitlerism has, at least it has one virtue, that it makes no Pretense of loving its fellow-man and of wanting all people to be free and equal. Everybody knows where Nazism stands and what to expect of it. Cruel as it is, and danger- Ous as it is to civilization, it is less cruel, and it may be even less dangerous in the end, than the sort of democracy which is not real enough or strong enough to practice what it preaches. To destroy hope utterly is kinder than to allow it without intending to let it be fulfilled. Patience Waning The importance of facing: the situation between white and colored people in our own country is twofold—it is upon this_rock that our own ship of democracy may go . down first, and upon this rotk, too, that all “peoples may divide into” the ultimate enmity: “Everywhere in the world ~ colored—peoples are asking each other if they must forever endure the arrogant ruling white race. They feel they have been very long patient, but they cannot be patient forever and they will not. In India such men as Nehru, now again in jail at the hands of white men fighting for democracy in Europe; in our own country colored Americans, as intelligent, and well educated as Nehru, barred by their color alone from an equal chance with white Americans to earn their living or to defend democracy—there is a deep, subtle, dangerous relationship between them. We are foolish if we do not realize it. . 17 co ete a as ee