CHINESE PEOPLE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 95, 24 August 1942, Page 5

CHINESE PEOPLE

DO NOT HATE JAPANESE

WILL DEFEAT MILITARISTS

"i! should say, if I may speak foi China, that this is the real wish of the Chinese people. They are determined to defeat the Japan militarists. but they do not hate the people of Japan. I have been humbled and amazed when I have talked with Chinese, many of them, after all these years of their bitter Avar withan invader, to discover that they have- no hate for the Japanese people. They have a fierec hatred for the sort of man and mind which will invade another people. They will fight forever against the aggressive, military, Avarlike mind in the world which is responsible for injustice and suffering. Th real passion that T have discovered in the Chinese has been to have a world in which there can be peace and human cooperation. This to the Chinese is a war aim strong enough to have nerved them to a bravery, a courage, an endurance, which none ■of us has equalled. They have fought without hatred toward the Japanese people, but Avith intense hatred toward Japanese militarists who have made the war. Their aim is to do away Avith such men, driving them from their soil and then from the world." —Pearl S. Buck, in the Christian Science Monitor.