Evening star., 1941-06-22

N world for 1000 years. This war
is the last stand of the old order against
American ways and ideas"
Nelson Trusler Johnson, who has
spent "a wears in the China service of
the State Department and has just re-
linquished his post as United States
Ambassador to Chungking, thus sums up
his analysis of the struggles in the East
and the West.
The wave of the future lies right here
in the United States of America, and the
funny part is that everybody in the
world knows it but us.
"All the world is watching us. No
American can travel in other countries
without seeing that.
Who are the Russians trying to imi-
tate? The Americans. They want to
remain Russians, but they want TO do
THINKS in the way we do them
Before the war, when you stood on
street corner in the busy sections of
Paris and London you could feel the
throb of the energy coming from the
American dynamo. All the vital things
you saw were an expression of the Amer
ican spirit. We are doing the things
that they want to do. We are the heart
and epitome of the new order which
has been on the way for 1000 years.
IN the United States we have new
world with new foundations, with human
freedom as a basis.
Fascism in Last Stand"
of
potism, making its last stand against
the new order. In the United States we
have given expression to the spirit of hu-
man liberty. and we have found that in
dustry, progress and better living go
along with this. In the history of the
earth, human beings never have achieved
SO much in so short time.
Our newfound belief in mans ability
to govern himself is opposed to the belief
of the Nazis that man is the victim of
environment, circumstances, with his life
in the hands of an angry God, and all
he can do is to get on his knees and pla-
cate that God through some high priest
Mr.. Hitler.
Essential in the struggle between
China and Japan is the cause of the old
Oriental order which Japan champions,
and this order which we have given to
the world and of which China was rap
idly becoming the champion. Japan is
trying to impose its ancient wang tao
(the kingly way) on China"
MI. johnson pointed out that most of
the Chinese who are prominent in gov
ernment, industry and science got their
ideas from the United States, and many
of them were educated here. The Chinese
people. he added, ARE essentially indi-
vidualists, in one sense the most demo-
cratic people in the world. They are the
only Oriental people who have shown
a deep interest in democratic govern
ment"
Mr.. johnson compared the vitality of
American civilization to China's age-old
culture.
Americas Great Empire.
In my lifetime these American peo-
pie have built the greatest empire the
world has ever seen. Chicago. Kansas
City, Denver, Seattle Portland, San
Francisco, Los Angeles and all the large
Eastern cities-each of them compared
with centers of industry and culture in
any of the great civilizations of history.
I'VE have put into our building all the
skill, resourcefulness. grit and faith that
human beings are capable Of And our
culture is growing. We have an Ameri-
can civiliZation-the material side of life
AND We are hlljl6inU an Amerjcap c,1l-
ture-the spiritual side.
I'VE invent tanks, flying machines
and parachutists and let other men use
them. We move so fast we don't have
time to use what we make. We are Gre
ating things that the human race will
use thousands of years from now-like
the great inventions of Egypt, Ur of. the
Chaldees, Babylon, China
Anybody who tells me that the human
dynamo which created all this is going to
run down in 10 years or So-just doesn't
know what he is talking about.
I'VE are destined to carry on the torch
of culture through the ages, just as China
has. The culture of America now COM
ing and yet to come will dominate and
inspire the peoples all over the world for
1000 years"
The American way of life, said Mr..
johnson, is dynamic, it means progress,
as contrasted with Fascism. which is
Standardization, orthodoxy, with no free
dom to change. Fascism and Nazi-ism