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acne = Cinteiy ated Aen et 5 Arete og th Cannot Trust English Leadership For we cannot now trust to English minds, however we admire them, nor [0 English leadership, however strong. We must think and act for ourselves. If our allies cannot be assured, America may find herself deserted in the Pacific when she supremely needs allies there. It is only natural that England should think first and most of Hitler, the wolf at the door. It is to be expected that English minds cannot take seriously enough the full threat of Japan also to us. Why should they when Americans themselves have not taken Japan seriously enough and do not now take any Asiatic people seriously enough? Pearl Harbor and Manila are today awful witnesses of our ignorance. There will be other witnesses 4S stern before we are done with this war- If England cannot understand fully our danger in the Pacific, let us not ourselves be misled. We Americans face the Orient as well as Europe, and we face it not as the ruler of a great subject people held under military power: We face an Asia in which we have no long-established power. It is too dangerous for us to accept any estimate of the Pacific except our own. We must for our own sakes give Our allies in the Far East confidence in our leadership toward full democracy. But can the United States provide such leadership? This also the Far Eastern allies are asking. Japan is busily declar- ing in the Philippines, in China, in India, Malaya and even Russia that there is no basis for hope that colored peoples can expect any justice from the people who rule in the United States, namely the white people. For specific proof the Japanese point to our treatment of our own colored 8 Bikes a ee 8 amon ees