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Small wonder that the Negro-baiter, Hitler, should rush to the defense of his Japanese ally with the following statement:

"I cannot agree with those politicians who believe they are rendering the European world a service by banning Japan... I believe that a Japanese defeat would never be any good to Europe or America." 

THE RACE MYTH EXPLODED

In the face of such a traitorous alliance with Hitler and Mussolini, the Japanese propagandists have the gall to appeal to racial solidarity and sentiment, to call upon the colored peoples of the world to unite behind imperial Japan as their leader against a "hostile white world"!

What are these racial theories anyhow, upon which the whole illusion of the Japanese "leadership of the darker peoples" is based? Whose interests do they service? Is not the theory of natural antagonism between races essentially the theory of the bitterest enemies of the Negro people? Does not Hitler seek to justify his campaign of extermination of the Jewish people in Germany and Austria, his demand for African colonies, his aim for territorial aggrandizement in Europe, on the grounds of race? Is not Hitler's "Aryan superman," destined to rule and lead over "inferior" mankind by virtue of some mysterious "inborn features of the blood," simply a myth used as a cover for Nazi policies of aggression which are threatening the peace of the world today? Does not Mussolini justify his regime of plunder and rapine in Ethiopia by prattle about the "civilizing mission" of the "superior Italians" in bringing light and culture to the "barbarous Africans"?

Obviously, the theory of race as an explanation of the oppression of colored peoples is the best weapon in the hands of the Negroes' worst enemies, the stock-in-trade of the Negro-baiting lynch-lords of the South, the Bilbos, the Ellenders, etc.! Japan has used this vicious race superiority theory in

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claiming for herself the leadership of the East; but it is the worst kind of theory for Negroes to endorse. It is a two-edged sword that has been used against us in the past and is more likely to be used against us than for us in the future. What is the difference between Hitler's "Aryan" superman doctrine of world rule, and the Mikado's "divine mission" to rule the "lesser breeds" of Asia?

How little a part this fiction of "race" plays in practical world politics is shown by the fact that Hitler has admitted the Japanese into a charmed circle of "superior peoples" - "the Aryans of the East."

Furthermore, the Japanese rulers with their talk about the "divine racial mission" of Japan in the East, to bring "order and civilization" to the "inferior" non-Japanese people of Asia, have, it is clear, accepted the questionable honor bestowed upon them by the Negro-hater, Hitler.

The Negro and other darker peoples cannot free themselves by conceding the race theories of their bitterest enemies, theories which have as their aim the justification of their oppression. These theories, refuted by every reputable anthropologist today, are calculated to maintain the division among the worldwide forces of progress and democracy, those forces in every country which are striving to unite in order to hold back the tide of international fascism which threatens to engulf the world.

JAPAN BETRAYS ETHIOPIA

With Tokyo agents feverishly trying to sell the idea of the "liberation of the colored races" by the grace of imperial Japan, it is surely pertinent to ask what happened to the promises in regard to Ethiopia of the Masao Dodos, and of the leaders of the Pro-Japanese Pacific Movement of the Darker Peoples, that Japan would save the Ethiopians? We remember that in the autumn of 1935, when fascist

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