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century. But today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowman; That to maintain this privilege, men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race."

Support for the war in Indochina is a good example of Dr. DuBois thoughts. In view of the United States' essentially non-violent response to white communism, including communist "aggression" in Hungary, Czechoslavakia and Berlin, it is at least plausible to argue that there might not even be a war if the citizens of Vietnam (and/or China) were white. Apparently, it is better to be "dead than red" only if you are yellow, red, black, or brown instead of white. At least the United States has not seen fit to destroy any white