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4 By James S Allen . I. is locked upon as & leading Anicrizan ‘edvocate of the Eastern peoples. Her identity with China for many years anc her activity in this country in behaif of China, India and the Negro people have given her a special posi- tion novelist. Because of her public @ependent world. sector of liberal opinion in this country, reflecting its trend and mood. . It therefore becomes important “understand the motives and the root causes which led her to assert be- for freeom and that in her opinion it would be followed by still another war which would be ¢he “real liber~ ation war.” bourgeois circles at home and abroad. ; - dently failed to take into con- sideration, that her speech provides serious juncture in the war when Japan is gathering her forces on the undermine Anglo-American posi- : tions in Africa. ‘Buck's utterances during the past year her latest speech comes as no wotérized by a number of basic mis- -eonceptions and deeply-rooted illu- sions with respect to the war. and the various nations and forces in- volved. stood fully the relation between the Paciic Front and the decisive Euro- pean Pront, and therefore does rot mgree with the concept of global _ strategy as it is being developed national aspirations of the -Far ° surprise. Her position is char-_ ‘To begin with, she has not unéer- ; 226 SSFEB 114 £B cf authority and prestige, which goes beyond her fame as a activity she has won respect not only among her countrymen, especi- - ally in progressive circles, but. throughout the colonial and semi- - Miss Buck may also be considered . @6 representative of an importent . fore a gathering of Nobel Prize win- . ners that this was no longer a -war . Miss Buck could not have failed to realize the serious implication of her remarks and. their. possible effect upon the political morale of Uberal and petty-_ And it is unfortunate, as she evi- heavy ammunition for the Axis . propagandists, especially at this | Indian border an the Berlin-Rome . Axis is attempting desperately to — ‘To those acquainted with Pearl ry " gredt anti-tmperialist influence of 1719550) fetGa cape ewer ae Pearl ~ . by 7S. Anglo-Savigf-American ©oalition. In her opinion, the main battlefield is in Asia and it is only here that the wer of freedom can be fought. She goes to the extent, of dismissing Europe completely 98 & traditionally decrepit civilization, able to. contribute nothing, even after vietory, to world progress. _ This aspect of her reasoning &s ‘elosely linked with a misunderstand- ing of the real role of the Soviet . Union—its historic accomplishments as a Socialist federation of free “nations, its place in world relations - and particularly its decisive con- tribution to the winning of the war and the defeat of Hitler and ‘hence the destruction of the Axis. Outside the passing references to the absence of race prejudice in the Soviet Union, Miss Buck in her utterances shows, among other thifgs, an underestimation of ,the 5 , ed ‘thie USSR and the progressive Aa- ture of its relations to the colonial peoples. From her first-hand knowledge of China, she should be * aware of the relentless struggle of the Boviet Government against all ion and against the policy of appeasement, as well as the con- sistent meterial aid given Ohina during all her years of struggle for At the root of her misconceptions Yes a distortion of the basic rela- tions between the colonial world and the capitalist powers. This rela- “tionship she has always oversimpli- - fiei in purely racial terms, as the _ colored peoples versus the white peoples. This is & very dangerous oversimplification, indeed, the kind ‘wpon which the Azis bases its propagande among the subject peoples. . Hence, it is not surprising that with this approach, Miss Byck comes to the conclusion that the . “real war of freedom” will have t] ‘be fought between the white an joolored peoples, and it is this king “of war which she has in mind wh ’ gaking of the new war which wi e the present one. ns "Barty this year, as Japan page Teily Worker yn WEA od . cet , . - leet cee a completing her initial successes in the South Pacific, she wrote: / wan “Our colored allies... know that — ft may not be the end of the war for them even when Hitler has gone ydown and Narism is crushed and ‘Japan returned to her isles again. The colored peoples know that for * them the war for freedom may have to-go an against the .very white men at whose side they are now fighting. « ,, The white peoples ought now to realize the truth, too—that ‘ war may not be ended for them ust face the question: will their golored allies then become their . enemies? That they may be very { Jerrible enemies is no idle threat.” - jy S2MIIES> F / This is a clipping from ; of the for : >. ppee at the ra _ government. | either, when Nazism falls. They -