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With regards.

from Hubert

WHEN AFRICA

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AWAKES July 3/41923-

KS.

The "Inside Story" of the Stirrings and Strivings of the
New Negro in the Western World

By HUBERT H. HARRISON, D.S.C.

uthor of "The Negro and the Nation," "Lincoln and
Liberty,” and Associate Editor of the Negro World

COPYRIGHTED

By HUBERT H. HARRISON, 1920.

PUBLISHED BY

THE PORRO PRESS

513 Lenox Avenue

NEW YORK CITY

1920

THIS LITTLE RECORD

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

TO THOSE WHO

STOOD BY MY SIDE

IN

LOVE, LABOR AND SACRIFICE

WHEN

THE FOUNDATIONS

WERE LAID

n 18 Sept 26 Howes 3.00 (4.C.) 14 Hp. 29 Ci

4268

185.61

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HUBERT H. HARRISON

CHAPTERS

INTRODUCTION

PAGE

INTRODUCTORY

The Great War of 1914-1918 has served to liberate many new ideas undreamt of by those who rushed humanity into that bath of blood. During that war the idea of democracy was widely advertised, especially in the English-speaking world; mainly as a convenient camouflage behind which competing imperialists 'masked their sordid aims. Even the dullest can now see that those who so loudly proclaimed and formulated the new democratic demands never had the slightest intention of extending either the limits or the applications of “democracy." Ireland and India, Egypt and Russia are still the Ithuriel's spear of the great democratic pretence. The flamboyant advertising of "democracy" has returned to plague the inventors; for the subject populations who contributed their millions in men and billions in treasure for the realization of the ideal which was flaunted before their eyes are now clamoring for their share of it. They are demanding that those who advertised democracy shall now make good. This is the main root of that great unrest which is now troubling the decrepit statesmanship of Europe and America. But the rigid lines of the old

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