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Ralph Bunche's

Refusal Of A Job

NEW YORK. ETWEEN five and

Beight million pale-

skinned: Negroes-out

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of America's 14,500,000 Negroes are living today in the United States white people. And in this country where It is almost a crime to be born black, nearly 30,000 "pass" into. the white community every year.

"Passing" is done mainly by white-skinned Negro men (best by those with Cau- casold strains), between the ages of 16 and 24.

Dr Ralph Bunche, the American who achieved fame as United Nations mediator in Palestine after the murder of Count Bernadotte, recently declined the offer of a post of Assistant Secre- tary of State at Washington.

He said that being a Negro he had no wish to expose his family to "the Jim Crow atmosphere of Washington,”. where race discrimination was ram- pant.

"We are treated like the ing covenants through which The women apparently prefer to utilise the extra Jews were in Germany," private persons agree not to attractiveness of their white said a Harlem teacher I sell or rent property to Negroes. Neither the law skins-lighter than the interviewed.

average sun-tanned Ameri- can-by marrying into some economically superior level of Negro society.

AND

'Passing' easy

ND "passing" is easy. Mulattoes with as much

"Negroes pay the same taxes ng whites. But city

authorities colloet, little rub bish in our black belts

The few rich and famous Negroes - Amèrican's enter

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RESEARCH RESULTS

PRAYERS KEPT TROOPS GOING

PRAY to

RAYER helped more German weapons: disclosed that gun "seemed most

keep American GI's fighting frightening," followed by the when the going was tough dive bomber, the mortar, the during World War II.

horizontal bomber, and the light. machine-gun.

That is the statement of the soldiers themselves, dis closed In one of the largest Rocial science research, pro jects in history. ・・

typically without deep personal The American soldier was commitment to a war which he, nevertheless, accepted as uns avoldable, the 'studies showed. He showed little positive concern 'Two volumes just publish, with war aims but had a convie- ed deal exhaustively with tion that America was on the the American soldier, his right side and, that the war was adjustment during "army He, and combat and its aftermath. They were com- piled from data gathered by the Army and released to n civilian committee of socio- logists after the war.

necessary.

OTHER BOOKS COMING

**The American ́ Soldter: and The American Soldier Adjustment During Army Life" Combat and Its Aftermath"

(Princeton University Press) are In both the Pacifle and volumes intended for the student huge, richly-documented Italy, at different stages of of social science and the mill- the war, a larger proportion tary. They are the first half of a..

four-volume work of enlisted infantrymen said projected they were "helped a lot" by Information and Education Divi- based on data collected by the prayer than said this of any sion of the U.S.. Army and other personal adjustments edited by a committee of the cited.

Seventy percent of under a grant from the Carnegio Social Science Research Council those surveyed in the Pacific Corporation. said it helped a lot, and 83 percent of the line infantry-One of the interesting studies men in Italy gave the same is the "very resentful attitude answer.

fatmade of ground combat troops towards

!

IN TOUCH SPOT

rear echelons, Something of the bitterness felt toward soldiers. still in the United States shows In the comment of a private in the South Pacific:

"Us' guys over here that's left

taluers-suffer, too. Recently "I sure prayed when I was in a -singer- Lena Horne, who visited tough spot," one, combat veteran Britain in 1017 and stayed said. " just asked the Old Man three weeks at a leading Lon-above to lead the way and take of the outit are bent up with don kotel, was asked to leave care of me. When I was hit in the malaria and tropical ulcers. We A New York restaurant.

leg. I asked the Old Man abovo should have a chance to breathe to heal my leg. We had prayers a little fresh air for a while. But sometimes before going into I guess you better keep theps action. It helps a lot.”

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In the city's burs the Negro might be served-but his glass will be smashed in front of his face by the bartender as soon us he has finished his drink,

USO boys back there or there won't be any USO. If we have to, wa'll take another crack at the Second only to prayer as a source of support in combat was forward to, anyway."-United. Japs. There is nothing to look. the thought that you couldn't Press.

Employment ban let the other men down." Close-

school" is a broken-down old N rural areas the Negro

ly related to, that code of group loyally was a sentiment of pridt- in outge, the study, revenis,

"We are denied economic or the courts have any con- slinck, equipped with a trestle The combat study shows that

with them.

table and benches,

opportunity, prevented from:

and torn, there was little tendency among voting by coercion, intimida--Even worse than this is out-of-date school books long troops to deny their own fear re

discarded by white children. actions

In one survey among tion, and the poll-tax (cumu- the "gentlemen's agree. Mostly it is situated miles from wounded combat veterans in the lative fee of 7s. 6d. a year 'ment!' contrived by the the Negro homes, with no

having had at least one which we simply cannot American Government it transport provided, as for the miten anicure, 65 percent ad- experience in combat in which afford), and now there is a self. Through its Federal

they could not perform The Negro child

must walk adequately because of intense barefoot as many as ten miles fear.

By Evelyn

Webber

now

whites.

in all weathers to get there. And the one Negro teacher is required to fire the stove and

ns half of Negro blood (though one-eighth is more

joke the Housing Administration's clean and repair the school- usual) are going it. There hideous isn't even any atavistic black Southern law which insists "Underwriting Manual" house.

Most trade unions habit. perience developed a "permissive baby to prevent it any more. that Negroes, mostly illiter ate, must pass examinations before they can vote.

If one of the parents is white the baby cannot be darker than the darkest parent. If they are both of Negro blood, the baby may be only slightly darker; but the chances are heavily against it.

accepted union

NOT COWARD

Enlisted men with combat ex- (Bible of American real- cstate), Washington advises ually exclude Negroes

bititude" toward fear in combat. by When they are the use of deed restrictions tacit consent.

"The man who, was visibly "inharmonious relegate them to avoid

by-laws shaken by exposure to danger, The subject of the racial groups," warning that status in segregated areas.

an inferior who trembled volently and who examination? The Ameri- deeds should contain "pro-

burst out weeping like a baby Fifty-one

percent,

a coward visions for prohibition of America's factory

of was not regarded as owners re- unless he made no

apparent the occupancy of properties, fuse to employ them.

effort to stick out his job." except by the race for which

Studies among men who find -London Express Service) been exposed to a variety of they are intended."

can Constitution."

Live in squalor

It is illegal to "pass" in IN the cities throughout most States. Many who do,

America Negroes

are

to

the

owner

POCKET CARTOON

dy OSBERT LANCASTER

THE NOVIET ZONE WELCOMES CAREFUL DRIVERS

HE FOLLOWED COLUMBUS

this

In its "Outline of Protec learn Spanish or another restricted by "gentlemen's tive Covenants," the Govern to, shanty ment actually issues a pat. foreign language in order to agreements" escape detection. They towns, where they lived in tern of the language to be know that the white Ameri- miserable squalor. In the used in drawing up "effecR HAKON MIELCHE, 44- his

restrictive Myenr-old

route exactly. His ship On the island of San cans will then consider them rural areas their housing is tive" racially

Danish Jour was bigger. than our 60-footer, Salvador in the Bahamos, deeds, leaving the name of naliat, a degradation.

was despatched last but we bad an auxiliary motor, Columbus had pulled a fast. merely as foreigners.

the race (or religion) to be August with this-order: "Tako But then Columbus didn't have orto on King Fordinand, and On trains and buses in inserted by "Anyway, we don't all

£12,000 yacht and do to apply for dollar. There Queen Isabella of Spain, said.

what Columbus Statco 'pass' completely," said a many

did was a lot of give-and-take in Mr Miciche. exactly they are according to his own private when he discovered the New it." mulatto to me.

isolated from the white hate obsession.

World in 1492.”

He had promised them dodies. population. They may not

First stop was the island of of gold and diamonds for Mr Mielcho bought a cheap Gomera "From nine until five at eat in the same places, and

in the Canary group, financing, the trip, but found An added note says the copy of Columbus's logbook. All the local mayors presented his first discovery was a bleak my office job I'm a white even are forced to walk in man. At night, because my the gutter if the white man race objected to may be colour movie film and 1,000 and a cask of water from the pitiful. Indions lived.

up with

30,000ft. of the crow with dates, bananas, spot where only a few hundredi Even dash of Negro blood makes approaching on the pave- employed as domestic ser bottles of Danish beer, and set stream Columbus used.

coconuts would not grow.." me ono,, I'm a Negro in my ment insists.

vants on the property! sall from Palos, Spain-just as In return Mr. Mielche shared

Columbus did. *.

ront some of his Danish - beer, home. I'd never have got

Columbus had passed off some the job hnd I said I was ... I asked a white New York

"Such covenants cover 80 To make the business sound cheap fowellery. Negro."

lawyer why the Negro could

more authentle he changed the not, ent or sleep where ho percent of the city in liked in these areas. Ha Chicago," said the Harlem

school teacher, shrugged

·Bad treatment TREATMENT of

the

loaded

At Cuba, Mr Mad MANA

got a hero's welcome, from the residents of Puerto Gibard. They have a standing argu- ment with the town of, Bahid

was landed,

mamo of his British-built and

from Monsoon to Santa Maria, At the spot in mid-Atlantic Barlay as to where Columbus and had two brothers in his where Columbus's crow crow of three-just as Colum terrified by a sign in the sky bus did.

"Ah, you call yourship Me Mielche

comot "I'll admit the federal "In Baltimore Negroes,

Santa Marla and you come "In London Mr Mielche har (probably the brilliant 1048K, Negroes' hero Is so laws grant equality to every form 20 percent of the paused on his way home by air sighted arst in South Africa herst. You believe this is

the place, they told him. flagrantly bad it is becoming one," he said. "But they

from South Africa to tell the on November 1, 1946), im-story of his four-month trip to Where Columbus reported Me Mielcho thought it was an International acandal. have to be interpreted population, and aro

birds and driftwood MPZSONDETIONED, Returning coloured soldiers differently in different prisoned in less than 2 per- fils London publishers.

Mr. the other way round, but the !Miescha-sighted, them. cont of the living space. A Columbus was lucky," said About the only thing wo less dependon on 1200

freedom of the town more or any that even in their segre places."

didn't have the samo WAN gated Army life they found Here in New York there single block in Harlem Mr Mielche "All he had to do

was "sall west until he hit muting. knew where" we?

azreedi more equality in Britain. are secret restrictive hous- houses 1,871 persons.

something. We had to follow were doing," he said.

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