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ase By_James S§. {Allen (This is the third ‘and last of a series op the speéch delivered , by uck_,at the Nobel Prise Winner’s dinner held in _ New York City.) - . Im. AR more important than any formal, documentary pronounce- ment of freedom to be obtained, as | important as this is for political “se mobilization, are the possibilities— Q actual and potential—which are in- ~ s herent in the people’s war itself and ’ §m the forces it sets into motion. . China, for example, as a result ia _of the national cohesion she- has ‘already won by her own efforts and because of the military necessity of ‘ ‘and destroy the Axis, can never _ again be returned to a state of par- _ tioned dependency upon the great cipitalist powers. d India will be free, because it both a requirement of United Nations victory on the Pacific Frent and already a predestined outcome ‘of a war which is being fought “~~. against the most aggressive and ** tyrannical imperialism and which ~ ‘therefore also engenders over-all ‘anti-imperialist results. *. To attempt to discount the whole ‘war simply because the British Die- _hards controlling colonial policy are blind enough to-place the privileges of empire above the national neces- , Sity for victory is to miss the bus. The best answer to Pearl Buck “4s being given by the people’s lead- . ers and organizations of India, prominently among them the Com- _munists, who understand that free- * dom, even if it is a military neces- sity, will not be handed down to them on a silver platter. If. the , Colonel Blimps arrogantly refuse to permit the Indian people to de- nd their own country because this tails recognizing their national spirations, well then, say the In- mobilize the ) ta _FE the United States to defeat Hitler ah ALL INFORMATION CONT AINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED _ DATE Ad BY Case of Bo Buck“, | Indian people egainst the enemy despite the Blimps and if necessary egainst them. . e ; e . ‘action of the British reac- tionaries against India does not change the character of the war,” although it does make victory more . difficult. completely a sense of reality, would demand that the war be “entirely” just and “free” of all contradictory imperialist phenomena before he supports it. The war is not taking place in a vacuum, nor did the peo- ples choose the conditions and the relations under which the war of Hberation is being fought. We could think of many ideal relations to re- - place existing ones which theoreti- cally would make winning the war as easy as driving up Fifth Ave. But we have to win the war with what is at hand and with those additional favorable conditions which can be created by the peoples with the help of the “tron necessi- ties.” ° Another thing which “Mis Bee does not grasp is that the failurej| on the part of Britain and ‘thet United States to do what is. re- quired in the colonies to.win the war creates new compulsions at home. In Britain, for example, the failure of the Cabinet to grant In- dia’s demand for a National Gov- ‘ernment, agitates large and growing sections of labor and the people, who themselves become a force which cannot be ignored in the re- formulation of national policy. PEARL BUCE’S speech reflects a . mood of gloom and despair -which is now setting in amcng cer- tain sectors of bourgeois liberalism. This arises fundamentally from the misconceptions and illusions which we have discussed: But it would be a serious oversight not to realize that their despair and panic; is also being fed by the continu --@ictions of Anglo-American policy . Only an incurable ‘purist, lacking . @. weaknesses, waverings and contra- : i and action in the war and at home. : To a certain degree Miss Buck's | j : ‘speech may be taken as a sensitive | barometer of sentiment among im- - portant circles in the colonial world { and among midle class sectors in our own country. This merely indicates that it is necessary for labor and the people to press much more boldiy and en- : ergetically for the further strength- ening and rapid implementing of: our United Nations policies. The . decisive thing is to hurry coalition ‘ ' j “warfare against Hitler in Europe, to i strengthen the Anglo-Soviet-Amer- ! ican Alliance, to take full advantage ' for the purpose of a rapid and con- } clusive joint victory of the his- toric achievements of the Red Army. | The immediate response aroused | throughout the world by the Af-; rican offensive, although somewhgt : 3 stifled by the stench of Darlanism, | shows that offensive military actiof is the best generator of popular oH _ Mhusiasm snd political morale.