The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-09-04
InstaIIment 3
"FREEDOW,

now beginning TO appear out OF
this war. II is not ghost Il Is
the first appearance OF reality
And the reality IS the world OF
tomorrow, beginning 10 take shape
cut OF the world OF today. What
Is this shape2 II Is the shape Of a
world Ia which there is already
new East The war began in
the East. The seizure OF Man
churia in 1891 was not the be-
ginning Of the war. though some
have called il that The war was
begun in japan long before that.
aid II was civil war The war
was between old Japan and new
Japan old Japan. which is the
old East cf which ancient Japan
was part. and new Japan. which
ie the West
Lsses Hold
This triumph OF the ancient
East has had It's inevitable effect
upon other countries Of Asia The
Pan-Asia Of which Japan IS
dreaming will not come about I'M
der her rule. but Il may come
about II Is the clearcst part OF
iomorrow's vast dim shape The
military triumph OF Japan against
the West has made pan-Asia
something more than dream
China. fighting beside the West
against Japan. nevertheless has
rot lost as the white man lost
IN Burma. in Malaga. in the Meth
erlands East Indies, and even in
the Philippines. For in those
losses the East triumphed over
the West. ana china is part OF
the East China was fighting
local war against Japan. but she
was also in n larger war. ard
though she lost the smaller war
she gained In the larger one. In
so far as japanese victory has
pushed the West out OF the East,
it has been China's victory TOO
And Il has been midas victory.
When Japan drove the white man
out OF his empire in other places
she loosened his hold upon India.
The slackening OF the imperial
grasp is felt by millions OF hearts
hungry for freedom 1t explains
more than anything else. what is
happening at this moment IN In
Ola. and what Will happen tomor-
row.
Good Out Of Evil
Something new IS coming out
OF the East What It Is cannot
yet be discerncd, but It will bring
a great change TO The whole world.
And the reason Il cannot yet be
clearly discerncd Is because the
shape is not definite What it
will be depends upon the way the
West goes. II depends upon the
sort OF mind that Will take power
in the West and mold the thoughts
OF western peoples. There IS yet
time to make that dim Eastern
shape a benevolent one. But unless
belated wisdom guides the West,
the East will not be benevolent
end there may be greater catas-
trophe than we yet had There
may be new war with new
foes and strange new alliances.
1t IS this discovery Of the pos
sibIlity OF freedom by those who
have not been free which Is the
most potent forces in our world
today. Great good may come out
OF II and great evil For freedom
Is mans dream wherever man IS
found The ignorant worker on a
rubber plantation IN Sumatra
dreamed OF freedom. slave that
he was The Indian in n village,
never having seen an Englishman.
has known he was not free. and
he Is hungry and thirsty for free
dom. and he will have freedom
though he die for q, For this
war Is larger than the struggle
betweoa any two or three ma
tions. larger than our war with
Hitler, larger than Japans war
OF aggression. larger than even
rny war for national survival It
Is the war for human freedom
The waiting East. the qnIesceui,
subject East. has seen the possi-
bility Of life again. because it can
be free. II Is with this East that
we must live tomorrow. and we
had better begin to live with 81
today. Whatever We fight for. the
East fights for freedom, and it's
peoples will not stop short Of
freedom. wherever the war leads
What we must see is that this
war Is not merely the active war
now being fought In Europe and
the Pacific. These are only the
immediate thrusts OF war. the
parts OF the whole upon which
the spotlight Is being fixed But
the war scene IS far greater than
the spotlight and Il is the whole
which must he grasped and UNI
derstood. for victory only in the
military incidents OF war will not
give us victory in the great war
looming around and above and
beyond the spotlight The strug-
gle is not contained IN the spot
liRht.
Where Is the zgle? The
struggle is IN the .kening peo-
pies. all those peoples of the