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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 35
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MISCELLANEOUS RACIAL LATTERS.
“tioward Lniversity
ree
It was reported in the Pittsburgh Courier on March 29, 19h7,°
that Dr. L..WOHNSON, President of Noward University, speaking at North
Po Carolina Colleze, had” declared that lr. TRUAAN's proposal +o aid Greece
- and Turkey with money and military aid exhibits "& declaration of war
acainst Russia." It was-:stated that JOHNSON predicted that Russia would
not declare war against the United States since Russia knows that there
toa are certain reactionary groups in America who believe that war with the
: Soviets is inevitable. JOHNSON stated in part, “Unless we remedy tho
uisease in Democracy which Communism has put her finger on and which we
are reluctant to relieve, there is no fight which we can undertaxe against
Communism which will keep her from defeating us in the open field in
. the time of peace." It was reported that JOHNSON was in faver of helping
: Greece and Turxey but that we should mend "our own disease in ifississippi
ar: Georgia.*
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The Larch 29 edition of the Vashington-Afro American reported
* at Dre Ry RUGCIZS GATES, the Zoology Professor at Howard University would
in all probability not return to Howard next September. -It was stated
‘sa+ DrawiLLINCER had been exonerated. The above refers to the allegation
that the professors mentioned, labeled colored people as being members of
arn inferior race,
according to the Afro-American for April 12, 97, Lrs. FRANKLIN D.
oe ALa-o7
“F ROCSEVELT spoke to an overflow audience at the andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel
arccii 3, 1947, and declared in substance that Democracy in the United States
folic far short cf what it ought to be,. It was stated that 'rs. R.OSEVELT
is Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of the Social and Economic
Council of the United Nations.
according to Confidential Informant T-5, LAZ“ScRIZR, a writer for
7 I! Newspaper, spoke on April 16 at the Andrew Rankin ‘‘emorial Chapel to
a--roxirately four-hundred persons, tro-hundred and fifty of whom were
Ts aa ot wer, he atatenA tarnenen that thn went aA
LP orcas. _according to informant, he stated in substance that the world
ir +90 large to be ruled by one country -= it cannot be ruled by American
Capitalism, British Imperialism, or Russian Communism. He stated, "The
Cornunist Party that presently exists in arerica constitutes more of a
ni.cance than a threat to our democratic form of Government." - He pointed
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