The Archive · 1937

MIXED MARRIAGE

Theory of Racial Equality To the Editor of the "Nonmit-Ciuwa Dancy News"

Sin—It is to be hoped that A.3.C: lotter published this morning will be not merely read, but well digested, particularly by those to whom the theory of racial superiority appear such a fetish.

The foisting of European elvitization upon the peoples of Africa, China or Central America, makes nauseating reading to say the least, and when an eminent statesman speaks of carrying the "torch of European civilization" into the Dark Continent, it is presumably another. way of stating that a cargo of flame. throwers has just been despatched wherewith to amuse the lowly, mis-nided natives!

But as A.C. points out, it is not necessary to look beyond the borders of Europe for these pleasant hap-

It is clearly impossible to establish the theory of racial equality or otherwise." What one nation may display virility or physical courage, another will possess in honesty, artistic development, or one or more of the many other factors that combine to make the human race what it is.

'De. Havex would do well to make study of this problem in the West Indies, for instance, where, with the possible exception of the' Bahamas, FROM THE shanghat

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