Show The War This Week World Peace Depends On Ability to Become Cultural Entity By TEX BARRON At this the beaches of Africa are littered with German Thousands and thousands of Germans and their Italian partners in crime are throwing down their rica have capitulated and Wm military prisoners are being rounded up by the pt mm is now a first af freedom is In Hitler's mighty Tex Barron Aryan race is Hitler's prize myth taking There is talk of talk of talk of gas talk of talk and more The Germans are getting fewer and fewer rations and more and more Pleasure is a fleeting thing and pain is the war in the Pacific theatre of action is no such a bright we all know that the combined power of allied nations will smash the We know that we are We were plunged into total war and we responded with almost total The greater part of all allied effort has been directed towards And now that victory is in we are faced with even a greater problem than that of winning the war the problem of maintaining This is a measure that will test the world's ability to become an culturally as well as If we are to establish a post-war world that will perpetuate we will have to think again in terms of national The popular belief that we are not fighting against the German and the Japanese but against Hitler and Hirohito is as radically wrong as Hitler's idea of world Ideas such as this obscure our reason for if a teacher expounds a mathematical therom until it has been thoroughly impressed on the minds of his they will abide by that therom until they are taught another We can not hope to build any sort of a world order unless we take account of the fact that people are We orate against the idea that a Japanese is not capable of living in democratic world because of his head form or eye but this is no reason for our assuming the other that all people are the The Versailles treaty assumed that people were It assumed that men would recognize the same values and vote the same ballots in spite of the fact that the majority of them were raised by entirely different family in contrasting environments and in spite of their knowledge that these men worshipped different ate different wore different talked in different loved differently and even slept We can what the Versailles treaty did for the We don't want another This argument does not purport that there are hereditary differences which make Germans but rather that a or a is of a specific national type and we must recognize him as His culture the way he the way he farms his the way he exchanges his money gives him a different and unique national In Japanese blowing one's nose in public is a social error while a resounding belch is a symbol of The romance-seeking young men of Japan get goose pimples over the gentle curve of a woman's neck rather than the shape of her Recognition of this principle of difference is the basis upon which we must build our new world It is true that the world's peoples are potentially alike and if those persons who plan the post-war world will in the light of their recognition of existing that this potentiality for sameness is guided toward then we will have an acceptable world If such an order is it will be the result of intelligent planning which will embody both different and mutually incompatible It will necessitate the junking of many of our own socially conditioned forms of action which are demanded in our capitalistic It will provide a different and far more efficient system of It will solve the problems of and will do away with discrimination against It will develop an attitude of mind that will recognize cultural sameness as being the world's greatest assurance of lasting |