"'You know what I think is one of the most awful tragedies of all time? When two of the greatest geniuses the white race ever produced, its two possible saviors from the Slav and the Chinaman, were lured into war on different sides. Douglas MacArthur and Adolf Hitler.'"
-Poul Anderson, There Will Be Time (New York, 1974), XII, p. 136.
Not just fiction. Currently, a student at Lancaster University:
is concerned about the dilution of the white race;
thinks that Hitler was a great economist and restored pride to Germany;
has tried to respectabilize these ideas by organizing public meetings under the name of the "Traditionalist Society."
He has encountered much opposition and little support.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Both Caleb Wallis and this student were dead wrong about Hitler! And I seriously doubt General MacArthur would agree. Nothing I've read about him leads me to think he would have anything to do with Hitler and the noxious ideas about "race" he preached.
Sean
Sean and Paul:
It's been quite a while since I read There Will Be Time, but I vividly recall Jack Havig telling Wallis he was lucky MacArthur never heard him say that.
Kaor, DAVID!
I agree! Whatever his faults might have been, racism was not of MacAurther's vices!
Sean
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