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Race Equality. Viscount Willingdon, sometime Governor of Bombay and Madras declared roundly before the Congress that the white man must let down the color bar to other races, in order to avoid an inter-racial war in the future. Said he: "Providence long ago placed the white man in a position of trusteeship . . . Now his colored wards have grown up . . . He can no longer dominate them . . . He must treat all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality . . . A clash of races would be the ghastliest tragedy in history...