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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 36
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ATTERSON ASKS MRS. FDR.
ND UN SILENCE ON GENOCID
By JOSEPH STAROBIN who had championed the rights _
A ff canis, PARIS, Jan. °17--Walligg, of the African tribes whom the
executive secretary of[Union of South Africa has at
ZL easy roger Rights Congress today] tempted to annex. -
again challenged Mrs. Eleanor} Patterson denounced the off. |
icone acting chief “of Ste| cial silence on his earlier plea one. -
S. delegation to bring the/month a ag0 and asked Mrs. Roose~ —
crimes against the Negro people|velt to obtain a place for the geno~ |
before the United Nations Assem-|cide petition on the agenda of the
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ion on Human Rights. 7
bly. Commissi
Io a sharp letter to the United|He also insisted on a personal |
ates mission here, the fighting hearing |
@ has brought such worldwide i
, cited the UN trustee- |
i
ord of horrible crimes against the
tn committee's precedent in
ihearing the Rev. Micha a Scott
American Negro people and argue:
that all this does not constitute
enocide, Patterson maintained t
t even so the question falls
the competence of the UN
“I cannot accept,” he said, “the
tion that these matters are o
only to the internal
pens of law and order in the
“Patterson said in his letter,
“Either those bodies sre them-
selves guilty, or they cannot pre-
vent the commission of crimes by |
isresponsible elements. Fhe crimes ,
ainst the Negro people remain’
planned, premeditated, incited and |
oked. The record is 335 years)
Cisig
recent assassination
of Harry oore, Plorida |
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