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By James s. Allen x. - ~ the war e«4 --+ -- ternational relations, which gives Miss Buck her peculiar approach, , must also be added certain illusions which prevail in the liberal m‘nd. In her talk to the Nobel Prine winners, she found that the war stopped being a war for freedom * six months ago. It was about that _ time that the British Government \, rejected the demands of the Indian S people and embarked upon its pres- * ent campaign of repression. ~ Jt was also about that time, and \ partly as @ result of the Indian *, eqisis, that relations between Chine and the Western members of the — United Nations had reached" a critical point. China was deeply — * aissatisfied with the failures of the Allies to ¢evelop a coalition policy . _\ with her for the Pacific Front and _ to send her sufficient war supplies * ‘ Ne + was a war for freedom up to six ‘i months ago, it is apparent that i ’’, her opinion it stopped being & Wat . for freedom when the Indian de- mands were rejected and China was , not given her rightful place of full equality in the councils of the — United Natins. By these actions, or lack of ac- tion, the United States and Britain, in the opinion of Miss Buck, had to “merely” & mill- ainst the Axis. The Western Powers presumably had permitted their prejudices to place ; them in the same political camp &5 . . This was & condition which * Yiiss Buck pictured back in Febru- * gry when she wrote: . ' 41 we plan to persist as we art, then we are fighting on the wrong _gide in this war. We belong with Hitter.” (American Unity and . . @ for her own front against Japan. : . "'Bince Miss Buck believes that it.. ~~ war of national survival, * ® struggle on the part of the United ' “Nations to. save themselves fram gabdjugation at the hands of Hitter and the axis. This is as true for ‘Britain the United Btates as it iis Yor Sh¢ Soviet Union and Chins. ds oneal applying to colonial as well as capitalist and socialist coun-~ - ries, which inakes possible the ’ ‘qealization of an alliance among - ‘diverse ‘nations for the defeat of: theis-common enemy. ; "“gpven if the war were “no more - Qhan” « struggle to defeat the Axis, tt would still be = petple'sewar of ‘national liberation. « For that is an- aim worthy engpyh¢ and asic: a ‘ enough to enlist the endeavors of “allqeoples fighting to defend therh- selves against the threat of fascist enslavement or fighting’ to libera‘e themselves from the Axis yoke. But the necessity to engage in the war until the final defeat of Hider and the Axis, which is the sig2ed pledge of all the United Natilns, also brings with it other necessities. ‘ The war for national survival cPe- ates what Earl Browder has termed its own fron necessities. Among these is the need for full coopera- tion with the Soviet Union, whish ‘fights courageously and relentlessly om the decisive front of the global Another is “the necessity of full eooperation with the peoples of the subjugated countries of Europe in their fight against the Hitler tyranny Bill another ts ‘the military Daily Worker for necessity for victory in the Pacific , of assuring the partnership of the Indian people in the defense of i necessity to develop an equal compulsion of national - Te teed _XYHESE are “iron necessities” be- + CAUSE without _ she national existence . and the United States are “Treaty, the American-Boviet under- standing, the Bino-American Lend- Lease Treaty, the Anglo-American ‘commitment to abrogate all special privileges in China, is that these ‘documents are an official recog- nition on the part of England and the United States on some of these war necessities and of the need to continue and strengthen their col- “jaboration with the Séviet Union ; “also after the war. . _ * But Miss Buck siffers from the - ‘musion that the recognition of an _ “iron necessity” is equivalent to its ‘yealization, and therefore becomes _ easily “disillusioned” when the demands of the Indian people are not immediately granted. Bven more, it is sufficient cause for “dis- “qusionment” if the necessities of - _the war in terms of national free- ’ @om are not fully proclaimed in & - {ermal document as “war aims.” According to this approach, the . Atlantic Charter has no meaning» because it is not being implemented extensively now, and presumably the war has no meaning as # War fa freedom because there is 70 greater world-wide charter of aree- sis a pping fron of the nec at the ~ p. 33.) pepship with China, who holds the (=; Here, 17 199940,