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Mon Mar 3 10:53:29 CST 2003
Stoddard seems to be a darling of white supremacist
and racist circles.
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Lothrop Stoddard, A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard)
THE RISING TIDE OF COLOR
AGAINST WHITE WORLD-SUPREMACY
(1922)
NOTE TO READERS: This text is a must for serious
students of international affairs and the politics of
population. Because it was written so long ago (1922),
you will find the language a bit archaic at times,
perhaps even peculiar. Stoddard's racism is more overt
than one might expect from a "mainstream" author these
days, but the sentiments expressed in this book,
unfortunately, are not.
Lothrop Stoddard was regarded as an expert on
demographics in his day, and was frequently a featured
author in the Birth Control Review, the official
monthly magazine of Margaret Sanger's American Birth
Control League (ABCL), known today as the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Stoddard also
sat on the 10-member Board of Directors of the ABCL
from March 1922 to December 1925,and was a member of
the group's national council from January 1926 to
March 1929. This book, therefore, was published during
the time that Stoddard sat on the Board of Directors
of the ABCL. And the ideas contained in the book
frequently appeared in the journal. For example, he
wrote in the December 1921 issue that "It is the lower
elements of the population, the negroid aboriginal
tribes and the Pariahs or Outcasts, who are gaining
the fastest" ["Population Problems in Asia," Birth
Control Review, December 1921, page 11]. It is not
surprising that the electronic version of The Rising
Tide of Color is popular on white supremacist and
racist web pages around the world.
As old as these words may be, they are in many ways
chillingly contemporary. Declining fertility among
Europeans and other people of western European descent
were a major concern to Stoddard more than 70 years
ago, just as they are and continue to be for national
policy makers in the west today. Like his counterparts
in post-World War II America and the U.K., Stoddard
was tormented by the growth of the Asian population
(called Asiatic in his day) and its implications for
that region's rapid modernization. He was counfounded
by the growing regional and international strength of
Islam in precisely the same way as are his
contemporaries at the Central Intelligence Agency, the
Pentagon, the State Department, the National Security
council, the British Foreign Office, MI6, and NATO.
Even before there was a cold war, Stoddard
contemplated with horror a "yellow world" (Asia)
seduced by "Bolshevik propaganda" and the emergence of
a "Pan-Islamism" capable of inspiring rebellious
African colonial subjects.
Because these parallels are so relevant and so
absolutely convincing, we have prepared a reader's
guide to some of the most important sections of text.
With a few changes in spelling and a editing job
sufficient only to put these words into modern
English, this book reads like the inner workings of
western governments in the late 20th century as they
deal with the emerging nations of the southern
hemisphere.
...the book online:
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CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction by Madison Grant, Chairman, New York
Zoological Society; Trustee American Museum Of Natural
History; Councillor, American Geographical Society;
Author Of The Passing Of The Great Race.
PART I - The Rising Tide of Color
I. The World of Color
II. Yellow Man's Land
III. Brown Man's Land
IV. Black Man's Land
V. Red Man's Land
PART II - The Ebbing Tide of White
VI. The White Flood
VII. The Beginning of the Ebb
VIII. The Modern Peloponnesian War
IX. The Shattering of White Solidarity
PART III - The Deluge On The Dikes
X. The Outer Dikes
XI. The Inner Dikes
XII. The Crisis of the Ages
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Into the Darkness: A Sympathetic Report from Hitler's
Wartime Reich
by Lothrop T. Stoddard
Twentieth-century America's most perceptive,
influential, and prophetic writer on race -- Lothrop
Stoddard -- spent four months in late 1939-early 1940
covering National Socialist Germany, as its leaders
and its people girded for total war. Stoddard
criss-crossed the Third Reich to observe nearly every
aspect of its political, social, economic, and
military life, and he talked with men and women from
all walks of life, from Adolf Hitler, Heinrich
Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels to taxi drivers and
chambermaids. The result -- Into the Darkness -- is
not only a classic of World War II reportage, but a
unique evaluation of Germany's National Socialist
experiment. For Stoddard was no ordinary journalist. A
Harvard Ph.D in history, the author of The Rising Tide
of Color and other works that played a key role in the
enactment of America's 1924 immigration act, fluent in
German and deeply versed in European politics and
culture, Stoddard brought to Into the Darkness a
sophistication and a sympathy impossible for William
Shirer and a myriad of other journalistic hacks. To be
sure, the New England Yankee Stoddard was no supporter
of the Hitler dictatorship, but he was deeply
interested in National Socialist policies, above all
in the social and the racial sphere. Reading Into the
Darkness brings you to hearings before a German
eugenics court, to an ancestral farm in Westphalia, to
the headquarters of the National Labor Service, to
German markets, factories, medical clinics, and
welfare offices, as keenly observed and analyzed by
Stoddard. You'll read, too, of Stoddard's
conversations with German policy makers in all fields:
Hans F. K. Guenther and Fritz Lenz on race and
eugenics; Walther Darré on agriculture; Robert Ley on
labor; Gertrud Scholz-Klink on women in the Third
Reich; General Alexander Löhr on the Luftwaffe's
Polish campaign, as well as Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels
and many other leaders. And you'll travel with
Stoddard to Slovakia, where he interviews Monsignor
Tiso, the national leader later put to death by the
Communists, and to Hungary, where the Magyars, still
at peace, gaze apprehensively at Soviet Russia. Into
the Darkness (so named from the mandatory air-defense
blackout that Stoddard found so vexing) shines a torch
of sanity and truth against the vituperation of all
things National Socialist that has been practically
obligatory for the past sixty years. Knowledgeable,
urbane, skeptical, and above all fair, Stoddard's book
is a unique, an indispensable historical document, a
time capsule for truth, and a stimulating page-turner
for everyone interested in the Third Reich and the
German people. ISBN 0-939482-59-2
Pb; 320 pp; Publ. intro.; $13.95.
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