Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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AMERICAN UNITY AND ASIA-Pearl S. Buck-John Day ($1). GLIMPSES OF WORLD HISTORY - Jawaharlal Nehru-John...
...problem for the world of tomorrow is the necessity for the changing mind of the West to understand the changing mind of the East. Both these books, in different ways, contribute to such an understanding. Pearl Buck stresses some of the difficulties in understanding the Asiatic mind. India's National Congress Leader Jawaharlal Nehru exhibits a little of that mind itself...
...desperate need for Asiatic cooperation with the West in this war is Author Buck's No. 1 thesis. Her thesis No. 2: until the American Negro and other racial minorities in the U.S. are granted economic equality and some measure of social equality, there will be no fullhearted cooperation with the United Nations from India (certainly), from China (probably...
...Japanese, says Author Buck, are broadcasting to Asia the doctrine that "there is no basis for hope that colored peoples [Chinese and Indians as well as Negroes] can expect any justice from the people who rule in the United States. 'Look at America,' Japan is saying to millions of listening ears, 'Will white Americans give you equality?' For once, Japanese propaganda is more than propaganda. Lies can be laughed off, but truth is a sober thing. Who can blame our colored allies if they doubt our intentions for true democracy for them...
...does Author Buck believe that settlement of this issue can be postponed until after the war. "It is idle," she writes, "to say tint the crisis between white and colored is two steps off and let us attend first to defense and the present war. Crisis is close, inextricably mingled with this war, because the war against Naziism carries race equality or inequality as one of its main issues...