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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1949.
AMERICA AND HER NEGROES
the
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By COLIN SEYS PRYCE
NEGROES Good Morning.
the
cominand, Negro officers are now being commissionel in the Navy, as well as in the Anny and Air Forse. And sittina in Congress ul Washington, D.C., ns Chairman
"H.K. Mills Produce Excellent Yarn" In
the Britain it's
Stock treatment Exchange which is said to be re-
and
Kal Tak Named."
He will, however,
"New Capt. of RAF Station at
be meeting
personnel anun,
Traffic Court,
Communists and fellow- travellers delight in pleking on · America's handling of its coloured problemas evidence that the United States is really undemocratic and negligent ail the rights of its negro citizens. Equal in its educational policy developing talents in the Arts are of the House Committee on Ex-
Itinols. There are, too, many non-poilt is their own business. They want making an important contribution pedliures is Representative Wil-
useful, self- culture.
Where there is anything wrong cal journalists, short on talent to help the Negro get on and to the broad stream of American Him L. Dawson, & Negro from
In sport, too, it is encouraging and only too willing to choose a establish himself as
America with the in wupporting member of the com
at Negro 24354 controversial theme to well their munity, but with their traditional to watch the progress
stories, who accumulate pieces of atitude to the coloured man they individuals like Harrison Dillard of Negroes, the blame invariably sponsible. fact and fiction about discrimina
groups. qf, close and Joe Louis, who made in the rests with some individual
or. 1wo reactionary one not like the idea do the negro in tion against
the da
four million the ring alone almost lictween
the least re- who are not in social intercourse U.S.A select
npart from against cullars (U.S.) a few, unfortunate- races and are certainly.
presentative of their nation. But proceeds ly bad examples of human be
of various business in- proceed
there is still
a lot to be done, intermarriage. haviour
Jackie and present
Robinson an
ani Americans know it as well Whether this attitude is righ vestments. balanced result as 口 overall
r wrong, most Southernera ure popular Negro star of the Brock") as unyone. In tine-and not · 100| picture,
to try and lyn Desigers baseball team drays
process When a communist puts forth confirmed in it and
change it by any means other a yearly salary of $20.000 (US) of the historicul Tizi ling it is with the simple
As I have already stated, Ne- the problem will near a fair, ami-
enlle and practical solution. education-towards-liberalism than
can depend on the native or discrediting the nation, would be interfering with their groes in the North share the same that you
in tlecency thin! ix
citizens of presently the
the greatest bul-
a_country, educational facilities with white
of the wark against complete Soviet s
whose greatness was built up to students. When they start look - domination-of-tho-world: He-nho-j^
-citizen-
It will be # diMcult. Flow aims to take people's minis Trom large extent by the enterprise, ing for a job. the laws of most make up
toil and faith of their forebears.stales protect them from diseri
dogs other racial task, for its obstacles lie in the entire absence of human That, is
where
Truman's mination, as
htt groups like the Jews.
It was only the other say we berties that characterizes lifo
Civil Rights Programme might groups
Editor The in the 1.8.5.R. and its mat
matellites ་་་
You can
cannot legis. Washington, a city of which 1 heart of human nature, and Ite
achievements will be in the in- remembered about The
come unstuck. irresponsible writer, who
of mind and late a state
am very fund, is unfortunately a tricate field of personal relations. who, with some space to fill, set you take up
American the mbject, and we
We cannot rush
It there is to be criticism, let it up the Ten Commandments and proper ederation, black mark see examples of their work every
scene, as far as the application of be balanced, for this is only one ran then without comment. If laws were passed enforcing ou
The next day he got a letter day-art not an
Imuch
aspect of a great experiment in this,
subscriber which sakl, political motives as for
for personal
intimates and leans are ashamed of oloured folk s
Democrucy, I call it an 'experi- from #
"Cancel my subscription; you're cuplial only
De- result
is their
that rain. Nevertheless, they are doing social squals, the
***[ment', for more should be the centre of their democracy will niways be,
retting too personal." the dirty work of the communist woul
QUENT would be to make him
feelings have Their propagandists, probably
·Negro- fellow-mocracy. this: more-hostile
into netion by convincingly, and thereby damag-citizens.
been translated
which has ing ta
the democratic equño, which
read of the Actors' Equity, You gasionally
take -South who its members to in the
part in guarantees and defeads his right
few cranks as un Individual to' write what'
rober and any shows in Washington then- white dress up in he likes.
burning tres until the doors are thrown around mask and go
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COMMUNISM'S
GREATEST ENEMY
the
I.
Mr.
on
the
out of the Southerner toleration of the colour-bar goes. Most Amer
Few countries Have a minority problem of the complexity at that confronting the people of the United States
English people, unfortunately, are of
Amongst the foremost critics of the 1LS. on its handling of this aspect of its affairs but England does not have coloured population na itr
The Chinese Communists have closed both the British American Information and Services In Shanghai. The pretext for the closing, is thin --so thin that it can only be regarded as a cloak for the real motive, which is to pre- Vent the Chinese people from hearing the uncomfortable facts about the situation in the areas of China under Communist control and news of the rest of the world. The suppression of all infor- ination except the distorted versions approved by the re- fers is the standard practice! in the alder Communist ter- ritories. Russia has carried it to such lengths that the Rus- -sian people are probably the worst informed on the face of the earth. Now it appears that the same principle is to be applied to the Chinese peo- excuse invariably ple. The advanced for this suppression of the truth is that the Party wishes to prevent "corrup- Lion" of the masses. It is a The latest dis- poor excuse.
guise of the power party poli- cies of Communism is the label of "new democracies.” iny- If that phrase means thing at all it can only mean rule by force. It is the same situation that prevails throughout all the Moscow- dominated
countries where dictatorship and censorship go together. Both the British and the American Informa-1 tion Services in China exist for the sole purpose of telling about the peoples of China their respective countries and thereby creating a better un- derstanding of our aims for peace. The closure of the In- formation Services is ample of the Cammunist proof dictatorships who feel that public enlightenment is their greatest enemy.
❤
Dollar Deficit
As the result of the Com- monwealth Finance Ministers'
conference in London steps are being taken to reduce the dollar deficit of the sterling area. While the United King- dom Government is reckon- ing
dollar cutting on Imports by a quarter com- pared with 1948,
and other sterling area countries will also reduce imports, it is hard to see what cuts can be made in dollar imports of all the sterling countries to set against a deficit which is at present running at a rate of over £600,000,000 a year.
doorstep. Furthermore, when Britishers go out to an area like Tanganyika where, like Kome
Southern towns and cities in the ILS., there are more negros than white men, how then
do they behave? I do not think I need take this point any further,
Admittedly, in the
Southern states there is rasse for criticisin of such things as lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan, the poll tax, and Jin-Crowiam In buses. At the same time, it is well to rainember that the South is showing an increasing
of the rights of all its citizens und responsibilities to especially its
SWALPUREBR
its negro population.
To remedy the high illiteracy rate amongst their Negroes, the Southern
states are spending literally millions and millions of dollurn on the construction of Schools And colleges 10 coloured students. accommodate Nezrocz nit
policy-making 01 education; coloured boards teachers
Into equal are coming tex status and
with rates of pay their white counterparts and they
being given standard of equipment to work with.
are
OR
the sotae
cluse it
be- ала
Lundumental
on the lawns of open to all, white and coloured, price of arl- The Klu Klux who can pay the humes.
little Kina, havever, ins
FU
auptnission.
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (right), acting United Nations Media- tor for Palestine, receives from Petar Grimm, chairman of the board of trustees for Town Hall, a United States organisa tion devoted to the discussion of public issues, the group's Distinguished Pubile Service Award, in recognition of his of forts, as mediator, which brought about cessation of hostill ties between Israells and Araba in the Holy Land.
average
is what
For
the U.S.
Odd Socks, No Buttons
By KENNETH THORBURN
The United States may be
"Drove Wrong Why in Queen's
Rd."
A bad move. They should be Betting an example.
"Barbara Swims,
"And Ex-ilusunnd Lodges Pro- test In Court,”
Persecution, that what it is, sheer persecution.
"I never see you with Miss De
Style newuciays."
"No. I couldn't
vulgar laughter."
sland этог
"Really? i never noticed it,” "No? Well, you weren't there
the country with the greatest when I propaxed to her." amount of strange culis and sects, but Paris does not lag far behind.
H'm.
Awakened by the burning rubber early today,
fumes
of
Mr.
Within small area in the Saint-Germain-des-Pres district, un the Left Bank near the Latin Brown and his wife found the butcher's shop over which they Quarter, flourish the nightclub live on fire." headquarters of diverse seels with names that usually Anish in
"isme."
They are frequented by converts to the "ismes."
The men
wear
There's nothing wrong with man if you
large check being a self-made shirts, narrow trousers and long don't consider the job finished too hair.
The women are dressed the soon. same fashion buy with their hair cut short. Their meeting-places are fantastically small and over-i crowded cellars transformed into nightclubs.
Inside these any time..from 10 until daybreak you may see (If can see through the smoke)
bebop- existentialists. Intimists, pers and what-have-you.
"Bar Vert."
Existentialists meet in the "Mephisto" or the Their old haunt, the "Taboo," was closed by the police.
A trafic
authority comments that there are too many ve-bic- ular necklents on the roads...
Always handy with o phrase, Mrs. Biewart of the Brass used to describe Mrs. MacFarquhar of the Manse brlofly: "I dinna like her e'en, and she's a'fore like a ferret."
A male existentialist is usually aged between 17 and 23, dresses
"Miss Coral Coles, who enter- in cowboy shirts, wears no tie. tained about 40 guests at a 'Come sports
beard and never visils in Bad Taste' party at her home hairdressers. The existentialist{ last night,' limited her costume to
call Jenter (they
him "the a pair of outside theatrical eye- Pope") is playwright Jean-Paul lashes." Sartre.
Her guests, 1 imagine, wore An existentialist is supposed to raised eyebrows, have definite Views
have
011 many
things and to believe In such
collectivity, things as free love,
and the fact that there is no life
You may say "Why cannot the to the 'sa MLE Negro children go schools as the white students?" North of the Mason-Dixon Lino and in some parts of the South, they do. Coloured and white children sit side by side
aide in. the classrooms through all the grades and Inter attend lectures together Universities, in- at colleges and
port from the public, whose out- Washington has been the tar-after death, so you may as well eluding Harvard and Yale.
The President of the famous rage at this fanaticism seldom get of another accusation in the have a good time while you are
It was
was around. women's College which unfortunately-reaches the pages line have indicated.
But most of them are mere ex- Doctor that
Ralph J.
istentialists without knowing has me or the highest standings of papers which have reported shid
Bunche. UN Mediator in Pales- the incidents.
why. in the American academic world.
On this business of the poll-tax, tine, refused a State Department
Intimists often, visit the same recently emphasised that Vassar
of the discrimina- makes no distinction
to the is Interesting to note that in post because
it is
haunts to talk about philosophic. retain it tion be might encounter in the al subjects and nurse the cheap- race,
creed of its the seven states that students and that it wanted to as a prerequisite to voling, seven Capital,
est drink the bar sells through- As it happens, I have only re- out the night, hundred thousand Negroes were
A-well-trained enroll more Negro girls.
I remember lying on my back able and eager to meet it in order vently come from Lake Success, intimist can spend the evening at in the quadrangle-lawn of Ox- to cast their ballots in the 1948 where for eightech months the "Mephisto" or the Club Saint- ford-like Washington University times the number voting in eight
Presidential Elections, almost live watched the proceedings of the Germain without touching
Vassar
colour
in St. Louis, Missouri; one even-
ing two years ago and listening poll-tax states in 1940.
the situation in the South the eminent Doctor Bunche ap-offers a round.
No 0
איש
were many? Paving and, as the years Like most members
and
Bunche
unless
someone
before whom
drop single Security Council,
his reports. peared to present
Intimlat both male and symphony concert, Among
of the UN female-wear odd socks. In fact, the crowd of students and visitors is
personally this seems to be the principal and new generations of Secretarial. The feels music joying the
Southerners mixing
RTOW Negrocs,
up, a more devoted to the peaceful aims of thing about intimism. Anyway, casily freely with their white fellow liberal and fair treatment of the United Nations, and that is the is a good way of knowing an- scholars and music-lovers, Like Negroes will become the fashion reason which compelled him to other intimist when you see one. the Catholic St. Louis University, and, more important, the accept turn down the U.S. Government's
offer. Incidentally, Dr. the City's Washington University way.
In the Northern states there is has for years held high positions Nick-Named Tarzan reports increasing enrollment of Negroes in its undergraduate and far less to declaim on this sub in various branches of Govern-
Ject. It is no more unusual to see mer
ment work, including several in
Most colourful existentialist is! graduate schools,
a Negro drive his own automo- the State Department.
rich man's son, nick-nameri Unlike workingmen apply
"Tarzan." He is built like Johnny bile around New York or Chicago but
than it is to
to see a Chinese drive.
parts of
of the world, the American Weissmuller, but with more hair. about Singapore.
worker expects to be able to own "Tarzan" hangs his hat at the In a recent article, it was his ow
own home as
as part of his na- "Mephisto" from 11 until morn- a loan the Lemate existentialiste sigh
That the
South chooser to rule 'Separate the
serious deterioration lately.
A
in most
This is because there has been stately never been to New York, this, he often negotiates a
by someone who has obt.onal standard of living. To doing, looking important, while all
a change from a seller's to
he
finished his drink.'
courage
example
one
•
Nothing annoys
a woman O much as having her friends drop in to find her house looking AA It usually does.
A modest girl never pursues a man; nor does a mouse-trap pur-. sua molae.
than
** 1. hoar_we_just_missed Danny Kaya!!!
countries, especially the Unit- the
the most part, brought up in Americans are willing and try- In it, "Tarzan" occasionally
ald
things la of
The United Kingdom Govern- ment's hope is naturally that
that in the city's bars the Negro from his bank or a home-loan and Butter their eyes at him. He sterling exports to dollar buyer's market; too many might be served but his glass
I know of at least owns the strangest car la Paris countries will play a part in sellers are now trying to ex-will be smashed in front of his association.
all City, started with an initial capi-machine, painted
In over lessening the deficit but here port to too few buyers. In fact by the bartender as soon as he such institution in New York-an antique, sports, air-cooled of $225,000 (U.S.) subscribed six-inch black and yellow there can be no figures, only production, the British Isles outrageously false statement. Als by New Yorkers and now work- squares, A four-seater, it is
fewer aspirations. At the moment have a fine record. The coun- snugly into one of the two cateing under Federal charter to en- rarely seen with
defined
home-ownership eight on board. exports to dollar countries try is doing much better than gories of propaganda
The passengers article.
This is only crowd Inside, or sit on the run- are still falling. The cuts ever before but so are other the beginning of this
Although 1 was born and; for und impr
what of
whitening boards and the bonnet. already decided in dollar im-
1 ports touch only lightly on ed States. The fundamental Britain, for the past few years food. Cuts in sugar and point is that these two de have lived in the U.S. Middle ing to do for their coloured com- wanders atleid from the Saint-
and in and around New patriots. In the South, private Germain-do-Fres area on to the regardett with the same con- tobacco Imports are not velopments the long fore-
federal and state financed Champs-Elysees or the Rue de tempt as a litterbug
construction
Bebophers Hang out at the drastic changes and their im- seen change to a buyer's mat: York City. I have sat in many feder bar where Negroes have been the
gers are sight to warm the Club Saint-Germain, where they. of any existentialist meet, other, beboppers and sway pact on the 'public will be ket and, the growth of pro-king and nothing "disturbing likė, a two million dollar (US Paix. His car and its passen-
He usually causes frame to the weird new rhythm. >> Be= partly offset by increases in duction in Britain and else whatsoever has happened. One hospital, health centre and nur cockle at Tallahasses, heart. friend of
school mine often sing Butter where are the two sides of Negro
handshake-in bebop which-to $2,500,000 (U.S.) Jams, meat, bacon and
him-demon- | Doppers Step Number One 'co- Florida, and a
Of all?
all things rhythm. - rations because, none of the the same. medal. There is Joined a group of us for a beer.
for, the earthly.
alata in ruising one's hands-high. dollar supplies of these now enough in general to go During the war he had served a tuberculosis sunitorium in Rich trates the futility
Lieutenant in the US. Army.mmond, Virginia; both
elty- Louisville, Kentucky,
over to stentialists and bebopters", have improved. Sir Stafford round. Buyers can pick and Now he owns his own trucking excitatus beren in Negroes, bebep peste brought vente snying win the cress and Cripps gives the choose. test is no longer business on Long Island.
Negroes 000
wido campaign
ign raised over $300,- France by Negro musician, "Diz In most cases, the sion that he is trying at the volume of production but
to prefer their
(U.B.) to go towards moder- je" Gillesple. To dance the be occasionally "dress up when and seem
nising
the city's bop, you have to be some sort of they go out You can always definite
expanding the same time to state the price, the kind
munity; they have
recognise one" by-hisˇ28a. negro hospital. The federal Gov-an athlete. elite
"of the the gravity of the posi- quality of products Full em social life and possess an
$150,
light camel-hkie Vergl Moving your feet in lightning a ligh tion and to avoid making too ployment can only be main which includes not fow wealthy ernmerit is adding another.
000-in the form of a grant.
rhythm, with your tongue stick British Navy du
with cord' Toope "Irktead of much of it. It is true that tained by efficiency in manu familles. They have their own
an excellent
One could go on for ever in-ing out, you ding your partner Britain has almost balanced facture and by holding the newspapers, an
Existentialists always never imports and exports but this right balance in the use of sine called EBONY, based on stancing the things that are be over your left shoulder and buttons.
the LIFE format,
under your right arm every done, every day to improve Negro movies, Ing ignores the crucial dollar dif- resources between different and theatres like the Apollo in conditions for the Negroes and time bebop occurg (A wear hats. It would be hard to ficulty. The dollar dificulty activities and alternative in- in Harlem, which I once waited. make them equal partners in the bebop occurs every me you find one to fit over their mop They are very religious race, American way of life with all have enough room on the dance of hair Jackets urwsipng, tron BETH › BLAYTOw sand aborta" "Bock does not perhaps look so bad vestments. This is where
America, would be sorry to its benefits. Racial discrimina floor to do this) if the last six months are economic polley, is now being
their partners into the air are wool Shoes have crepe-rubber. taken together, but the trou- I weighed in the balance and low their simple fervour and How in any form in government: Beboppers who aferaly "throw are always, izvi9lakioldtie
their wonderful, inspiring quality) services and the armed forcas e-homme-singing.” Also, their has been blumed by Presidential considered · ranic, amateurs, and soler two Incher While 'ble is that there has been a found wanting
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