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CONTE aR rr ns aan sense Pera fag Se cy just like pacifists of any color. d most Negroes--and Italians and Irish and Jews and Swedes and Slavs and other Americans--would act just as al] these groups did in the last war. They'd do their best to keep their country out of war; if successful, they'd do their best to help their country win the war--against Russia or any other enemy that threatened us. This isn't said as any defense of the Negrots loyalty, because any loyalty that needs defense can't amount to much in the long run. And no one has ever questioned my race's loyalty except a few people who don‘ amount to very much. . "What I'm trying to get across is that the American public is off on the wrong foot when it begins to think of radicalism in terms of any special minority group. It is thinking of this sort that gets people scared because one Negro, speaking to a communist group in Paris, threatens an organized boycott by 15,000,000 members of his race. "ZT cantt. speak for any 15,000,000 people any more than any other one person can, but I know that I've got too much invested for my wife and child and myself in the future of this country, and I and other Americans of many races and faiths have too much invested in our country's welfare, for any of us to throw it away because of a siren song sung in bass. I ama religious man. Therefore I cherish America where I am free to worship as I please, a privilege which some countries do not give. And I suspect that 999 out of almost any thousand colored Americans you meet will tell you the same thing. é CAGE a CINE AL y, [00498 850-