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Atlanta, QD CONFI Ae consoled by saying ‘Why should we want to fight for America or America's friends and how sure could we be that America's enemies were our enemies too?! #, ; . Page 255, "Today I do not know; and I doubt if the triumph of Germany in 1918 could have had worse results than the triumph of the Allies. Possibly passive resistance of my twelve millions to any war ac- tivity might have saved the world for black and white. Almost certainly such a proposal on my part would have fallen short and perhaps slaughtered the American negro body and soul. I do not know. I am puzzled." Page 256, referring to JOEL SPINGAIN, of the NAACP, "It was due to his advice and influence that I became during the World War nearer to feeling myself a real and full American than ever before or since." Page 266, Anti-Lynching bill, 1924, died with the filibuster in the United States Senate, "It was not until years after that I kmew what killed that anti-lynching bill. It was a bargain between fhe South and the fest. By the bargain, lynching was let to go on uncurbed by rederal Law, on condition tnaat the Japanese be excluded from the United States," Page 52, “Hurope was determined to dominate China and all but succeeded in dividing it between the chief white nations, when Japan stopped the process." Page 301, speaking of program for assisting negroes economically, "I stood, as it seemed to me, between paths diverging to extreme Commnism and violence on the one hand and extreme reaction toward plutocracy on the other." Page 302, "I am not and was not a Communist. I do not believe in the dogma of inevitable revolution in order to right economic wrong. On the other hand I believed and still believe that KARL MARX was one of the great- est men of modern times and that he put his fingers squarely upon our diffi- culties when he said that economic foundations , the way in which men earn their living, are the determining factors in the defelopment of civilization and the basic pattern of culture. Page 304, "The whole set of the White world in America, in Europe and in the World was too determinedly against racial equality to give pover and persuasiveness to our agitation. Jtried to say to the imerican negro seseee ‘You must put your demands not simply to American negroes but west Indians, Africans and all the colored races in the world.'" Page 320, referring to the basic negro creed, "ae believe in i i : f ialj the world over; thet is : oe mate hep and Sontrat femtns means of ord Setion an pa teky of income,' 7a CONFWENTIA: