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Where necessary, place names have been modernised. Russian words and names have been changed to conform with present-day English transliteration standards. It is pleasant here on the veranda of the old Bermudiana Hotel in Bermuda. A warm breeze rustles the palm fronds and the white- hot light of the sun makes the leaves shine as though buttered by the generous hand of a farmer's boy. In a rattan deck chair, twenty feet away from me, sits the man who rocked the worldβthe man whose defiant pride in his coloured skin, struggling against an instinctive inferiority complex originating from impacts with white dominance, fired him with the ambition to fuse all racesβwhite, yellow, black, brown, and redβinto one human race, the only one he acknowledged.
Representing the World Press, it is my job to sit here in the paradise of this island and watch this man die. I report daily on his captivity and exile, his opinions on his military victories and mistakes. I quote his reflections on the failure of his aim to avenge countless women of colour, carelessly possessed over hundreds of years by white men, by encouraging the possession of white women by yellow and black men, and, lastly, on his futile determination to blend all bloods so that never again could white skins call themselves better than yellow, black, brown, or red.
Defeated but not crushed, his armies disbanded, his navies sunk, his air fleets brought low, he still remains the defiant symbol of inflexible will power that dictated the infamous miscegenation policy to the world and ordered his battling hordes to " CONQUER AND BREED.
