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For in many educated colored Americans hopelessness results not in simple crime but in a rejection of patriotism. There are those, and some of them leaders, who favor Japan in the present crisis, seeing in Japan the future leader of all colored peoples in the world. There are those who prefer Hitler to British imperialism. feeling that if English rule over colored races can be destroyed, then Hitler can be dealt with afterward as the less established evil. At home and abroad the white race has the choice to make—whether it will follow the totalitarian principle of ruler and subject races, even to the inevitable end of rebellion and the worst of wars, or whether peoples of all colors will decide to work out ways of living in mutual harmony and freedom. . i Crisis Near At Hand \ Such is the situation between cdlored and white peoples at this moment. It is idle to say that the crisis is two steps off and let us attend frst to defense and the present war. Crisis etween white and colored is not two steps off—it is close, inextricably mingled with this war, because the war against Nazism carries race equality or inequality as one of its main issues. It does no good that we ourselves keep the issue hushed and hidden and apart from the thinking of the mass of the white people. The crisis approaches, whether white people.are willing to know it or not. It approaches in the world, and with that inexorable march our own people are keeping step. What then should we do if we are honest believers in the democratic way of life? We must move swiftly and at 18