SATURDAY, JULY 7, *945 ‘THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE A RELIABLE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PAGE SEVEN THE By ROY WILKINS WATCHTOWER - - VOW that the San Francisco conference is over Black Republic. They are cultured and courte- it might be well to refer once more to the fart ous, but in their dealings with America, they deal with white people and leave Negroes care- that American Negroes and other “colored*’ peo- fully alone. One Haitian consul to New York ples at the DIGEST- United Nations meeting did not be- to boast never went above 110th WEEKLY used that he come so chummy. I sec that P. L. Prattis of the strci t. that is. into Harlem. Courier has returned to this topic and small The Liberians have never been too friendly. wonder, since anyone who was They have a racket of their own—the ruling at San Francisco must have class —and any American Negro who has been impressed by can testify to the “cold treatment” our Bilbo Brays it. there On been The FEPC American Negroes have people receive. The Chinese have been cooi. Before the war the Japanese were ice cold, and (From Record. lately been stirred to curiosity jspfpjlfcfc/ The Congressional theme of the book is the glorifica- i tries of the world will be treated and some action in behalf of the Indians have been merely lukewarm. June 27, 1946) tion of a love affair between a under the San Francisco charter Negro black and brown people Liberians Bilbo: white man and a woman. is such that there will be dissat- ether At San Francisco the behaved better i ‘The bill now under considera- "Last night I received through isfaction and globe. They rest. and unrest rebellion over the have than the Vice President Simpson made tion contains appropriations tor the the mail copy of a speech entitled, of the colored people of all the i Negroes. worried themselves about the many friends among American Th*e life and maintenance of these 16 The White Christian and His Con- nations of all the earth against the 1 Ethiopians, the Haitians, a Haitians were, as usual, cultured, but aloof. The agencies as provided in the bill science.' bv Lillian Smith I no- white man and his rule There- it passed House. A hercu- tice that variety of Africans, the British Ethiopians could not be found by American as the the speech has been de- fore. he says, they are under his lean eifort was made in the House livered—and one can tell what it leadership, ready to Indies, Indies, Negroes. be led into West the East by the sponsors of the FEPC to in- is by where it was delivered— at an all-out world race war and con- They have We these people an for the Detroit, and the Indians. cannot be indifferent to and J corporate appropriation Ford Hall Forum in the flict. His book is calculated to do talked a great deal about the their treatment, but it seems that the time has continuance of the FEPC; but all Institute of International Relations, more harm and to twist and cor- • Roy Wilkins in bill the Community rupt unity” of colored people. As come to stop raising our blood pressure over vain. So the came to Columbus. Ohio, the and mislead the brains of Senate witfi 16 agencies; it is now church in New York, and in sev- more Negroes in the United matter fact, all these out- their fate. In the new World Organization the States a of under consideration; we are prac- eral other places. I am not going than any book which has voting Negro power oecn side colored people have not been too much American citizen has more tically through passing on the* 16 to reply to this speech now. but written in a century. That was the bothered about the American Negro and have not and influence than any one of the small so-called agencies, and in a few minutes we it was delivered in the interest of purpose of the book The author j ' '%< in behalf. black nations. We have enough votes, even could have a roll call and these the FEPC—I am saving that for not only prophesies a world war welcomed his interest their with perpetuated the poll tax, the white primary and other re- 16 agencies would be the fil.buster—do Senators under- between the races but he really During the Ethiopian-Italian war the Ameri- by an appropriation of the Con- stand? wants it to occur, because he tninks strictions. to elect a President in a tight contest. can Negro worked himself into a la.her in sym- gress. and there would De no On .Mrs. Roosevelt the members of the colored race* We can (and have) rhange the personnel of the outnumber the whites, and that troub.e. The next day. after I had made pathy with the African nation only to be told that manner we But since the 20th day of June when the war comes it will U. S. Senate. In this can hung some the petition be his we have been by my observations on Dr. Dubois is a Massachusetts they did not consider themselves black and would pressure to hear on one of the two very great threatened sent f.om Georgia, a certain lady da>. distinguished friend Negro. was with and lovable in He born in Massachu- lather not be identified "Negroes.” Our powers (Russia and America) to come out of Mexico, gentleman this country who writes an ar- south, from New a ticle .n the Wa.'hingtnn Daily News setts He went and was ed- fi lends the British West Indians have indicated this, war and on one of the dominant Big Five the wild and wooly west, who ucated at Fisk university He went from under the nead of My Day, pro- that while they understand that there is nations of the new World Organization. is coming up with his little squirt back north and went to Harvard often ceeded to rush to the defense of between theirs, gun and is going to squirt into this college, and later, educated in . some connection our problem and It would seem that the small black nations these folks down in Georgia. was (with might courting we oill the poison of the FEPC. Germany. He says he had to run j they still believe some exceptions) that be us instead of they. There "No farily m the history of away (Note: Bilbo refers here to Sen- from Germany to keep from they are hotter off as subject* of the King than is plenty of room for co-operation. There are Amer.ca has had more honors be- marrying ator Chaves. Altnough Bilbo in- stowed family a white woman. of the United States of plenty problems to be we, here, upon it than the of “Now he is we are as citizens of solved. But sisted that he was not filibuster- Franklin D Roosevelt man the head research No in man of the Walter Amei ica. have our own problems which demand attention. ing he would not yield the floor American history more NAACP. White's deserves organization je% New York The Haitians have never taken the trouble There is no nerd to dissipate our energies and and his rantings take up 16 of honor and this than Franklin D. Roosevelt book is one of the fruits of the fact they to operate are not the finely printed pages of the himself; there to conceal the that wish ingenuity in quarters where they wel- and has been no for the support Congressional Record for that stronger Roosevelt NAACP. o? which as a white French country, rather than as a come. admirer or sup- of you arc day.) porter some ph.lanthropists than the speaker on this oc- contributing your money. On What The Negro Wants' casion But I had hoped that when 1 is thing they call the FEPC Mrs. Roosevelt, the w.fe of this Dn Richard Wright was born in sin and brought forth great and good man, had returned ‘ There is another bt ok which in Some possi- to the q.,let shades of should be taken off the book racks iniquity. Senators the ¦-¦ - ances- . ¦ bly do not know the history of it. t*al home on the historic Hudson, of the nation: it should be removed FLORIDA’S ANTI-LABOR DRIVE and I have a suspicion, indeed, I she would be perfectly willing, af- from the book stores; its sale hsve a faith—that if the thinking ter more than 12 years of full and should be stopped It is the recent "Don't whistle now. just look—remember this is the boulevard.** people of America knew how- this active life, trying in her w-ay to book of the month, which has had (Htpriniad from lh* Nuion) three months. And what happened? The sen* miserable concoction was brought run the government, to call it a such a great sale. Senators can say. carry understand why it has had a sible white men at Hills Brothers turned them ahofit the' would rise up and day and leave it to others to such IN THE citrus packing plant, under the heavy. K 11 the snake, and kill it now.' on. I had hoprd that she would **le if they will read it. It is en- down!” am reading book, keep proboscis out contro- titled. 'B’.ack Boy.’ by sweet smell of rotting orange skms. tte I from anew her of Richard •he title of which is ‘What The versial questions which members Wright.