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"A cure will also have to be found for that cancer, the large and permanent unemployment problem. From the colorful picture of the Indies, the false system of separate valuation according to race will also have to fade. . . .
"We consider ourselves fortunate that in the heterogeneous population of the Netherlands Indies, those elements of individuality and communal sense—though often not fully developed—are present, which have endowed Indonesian, Chinese and Hollander alike with the blessed gift of humor, the will for mutual appreciation and tolerance, and the power to stand united should—God forbid—we too be overcome by the catastrophes of war."
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