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One of the greatest mistakes that the Western world has committed, is to imagine that the colored peoples, in acceding to its type of civilization, would be drawing nearer to it.

— Jacques Bainville Couleurs du Temps (1928)

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You will understand and know the German Republic better when it elects Hindenburg president.

Nothing is more false than the axiom that governments are belligerent and peoples are pacific.

Monarchist or collectivist, Germany will not change its nature.

In countries where, as in France, there is still an agricultural population and a majority of propriétaires, one need not fear social subversion.

In order to avoid being unsettled by Bolshevism and its substitutes, one must be conscious of the superiority of Western civilization.

Couleurs du Temps (1928)

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