The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-04-08

coast to the British Isles. Then the
Huns swept In from Asia through
central Europe and destroyed the
Roman Empire. The Tartars cam,
in from the east. They threatened
to conquer al of Europe but were
defeated in one OF the creates
cavalry engagements OF all time
The Mohammedans captured all Of
North Africa: they took Spain and
went on up into France across the
PyreneeS. Thousands of Negro
slaves have been brought into
Europe at various times. Where are
hey now? Peoples have come and
gone in Europe for centuries.
Wherever they went. some OF them
settled down and left children.
Small groups were absorbed into
the total population. Always the
different races moved about and
!ntermarried.
We are used to thinking Of Ameri-
cans as mixed. All of us have an
cestors who came from REGIONS far
apart. But we think that the Eng
lish are English and the French
are French. This Is true for their
nationality. Just as We are all
Americans. But Il Is not true for
their race. The Germans have
claimed to be q pure German race,
but no European Is . pure anything.
A country has q population. IL does
not have q race. II you 20 far
kaA L. Ia -
Europe YOU are apt to find all kinds
Of ancestors: Cro-MasnonS, Slavs.
Mon"ols. Africans, Ceits, Saxons.
and Teutons.
Il is true. though. that people
who live closer tosether intermarry
more frequently. This is why there
are places like Alsace-Lorraine.
where Germans and French have
intermarried so much that he chill
dren cannot tell whether they are
German or French and so call them
selves Alsatiars. Czechoslovakia
included old Bohemia which had
population Of Nordics and semi
ASiatics and SlavS. After World
War the Germans and the CzechS
along he border between the two
countries intermarried so often that
the Germans Of This section got to
look like CzechS and the Czechs
besan 10 speak German But this
did no; make the two countries
love each other.
People Of every European nation
have racial brothers in other coun-
tries. often ones with which they
are az war II az any one moment
YOU could sor. into one camp all
the pCoNlc N the world who were
most Mediterranean. no mystic
sense Of brotherhood would unite
hem. Neither camp would have
language or nationality or mode OF
life 20 unite them. The old fights
would break ont again unless social
conditions we're chanved-the old
hatred between national groups. the
old ant3goniSmS between ruler and
ruled and between ;he eXplo!ier and
tho exploited
The movements 81 neoples over
the face Of the earth inevitably
produce race mixture and have pro-
d ced IL since before history began
No ore has been able 20 show that
his iS necessarily bad II has some.
times been a social ADVANTAGE. some
times running sore ,hres;enip'
the health OF the whole society. II
can obviously be made a social evil
and. whore i, is SO. sensible people
Will avoid contributing 20 j; bv
griCVlrg y their children make
such alliances We must live in the
world rs is. But. as FAR as We
know there are no imnutable laws
.ot nature that make racial inter
mixture harmful
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