“We are now in the midst of a total World War and changes are already taking place, changes for the better, changes which concern all of us deeply … The next time you hear someone start to tell what he considers to be a great joke, using certain distasteful words concerning colored people … you might urge the individual to stop using those words and, even better, to stop telling that kind of joke. These days, jokes like that are not very funny except to the Germans. It’s a little thing, yes, but the little things do as much as the big things to wear out the nerves of decent, self-respecting
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WWII perspective
