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...Japanese attitude toward other nations, adds Gorer, strongly reflects certain family attitudes-they divide all societies into male and female and act accordingly. In the 19th Century, when they were busy copying Western manners, they considered the U.S. and Britain male. Then, thanks to Anglo-Saxon nonresistance to Japanese aggression, the Japanese reversed their opinion of the Western powers' sex. Pearl Harbor and the later U.S. "weakness" in declaring Manila an open city reinforced the Japs' notion. What Japan needs to become a cooperative member of world society, according to Gorer, is less domestic discipline, more virile discipline...
Said he: "Had the church succeeded in placing all nations on the heart of her people, we should never have been bedevilled by the hideous pagan isolationism. . . . American Protestant Christianity [is] generally a one-class church. ... It is a sorry and alarming fact that Anglo-Saxon white Protestants seem to be imbued with more feeling of racial superiority and are guilty of more arrogant snobbery toward those of another color than any other people. The church has apparently not succeeded in inculcating humility in English-speaking whites...
...every alienist he passed from loquacious vanity, boasting and shouting, to uncontrolled lunacy. ... I do not know when he became certifiable. . . . Our real enemies, the supporters of the long tradition of Vansittart's unanswerable Black Record, are at one with the viler elements of our own Anglo-Saxon ruling classes, in wanting him to come to an end, before the liberating resentment and enlightenment, that follow the stresses of every great war, lead to actual world revolution. . . . He will never commit suicide-he hasn't the guts and our proper treatment of him, if we can catch...
...Nation's Talk. In underground shops and shelters, in shattered homes and streets, the Germans' first topic of talk was the bombings. A trailing second place went to what everyone called "the imminent Anglo-Saxon invasion." A lagging third was the once all-absorbing Russian front...
Jolting take-offs and stops scrambled Britons with Britons, Britons with Americans. Passengers clung each to each, forgot the chill reserve common to Anglo-Saxon bus riders the world over...