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Sef aS tea ole a aR at OP aap at lear ce ater EL ecm LE de ular nae Sagi dlp Sac aneaetd MAE My ac ila VRE A SG a wt Si aaa ge lang SE aR eae eS ke a Oi . ceAnC RTGS met confidential Informant Qi of known cui auvised that the washington Bookshop Association, 916-1L7th Street, Northwest, was to sponsor i WFO 100-2U99h CO. > a lecture and discussion by Mrs. PAUL RO8SSON at the Asbury Methodist Caureny lth and K Streets, Northwest, Washington, BD. C., on Octover 5, 19L5. informant advised that JONN SESCHER, author of ALL BRAVE SAILORS, who vas. visiting in Washington, was to be chairman of this discussion. onfidential Informant ww of «nown reliacility, advised thet on Fricay aveninr, October 5, 1945, ESLANDA GOODE RONESON lectured before a aashincton Sookshep Association audience of approximately three hundred and i. Fifty people at the Asbury Methodist Church, llth anc K Streets, Northwest, Washington, BD. ¢. According to this informent, Mr. JONN@REECHER, former United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Yepresentative at Stuttgart, Germany, sat on the stage as guest of honer and spoke briefly concerning the possiblity of our losing the peace after having won the war. In her lecture Mrs. ROSESON stated. that Africs has been so ruled by outaide forces that the Africans cannot look upon it as their own country. - She petered the plight and oppression of the nerroes in Africa under the .....—..- domination of Impland and France. She indicated that if the tenets af the United Nations were upheld that Africa might have hope that aid would not be denied its oppressed minorities and backward people» Mrs. 20R8S0N cited 3ussia as ac example for the United States to follow in the treatment of its minority groups. She pictured Russia as the chavnien of all minorities and emall nations as contrasted with the teaming of the United States and England at the United Nations San Francisce Conference to the detriment of the mineri- ties of the world. She spoke in glowing terms of the. way Russia had elevated its Yakuts and other backward peoples te their richtful chace. She expressed the opinion that the Hossian constitution would be a bevier plan of govern- ment for a united Africa than the constitution of the United States should the African Continent ever throw of f the yoxe of Lts sutside domination. She based this opinion on the similarity of heterogeneity of races in Africa with ~ the largse correlation of different peopiss who had been unites under the UsSk constitution. She indicated her contempt for the action of the United States in banding together with England against Russia in questiors affecting minorities, and she stated that as for England she would "dispose of it. down the drain where it Delongs*. She said that if the Gsuncil of soreign Ministers would accuiesse to the current demands of Russia for a share in Africa's colonies it might be a good thing for Africa's future. She cited Zritrea as an example where the Russian system, which had been so successful among the "backward" peoples of the USSR, might be much better than to return that Itelian esolony to Zthionia, its sarlicr owner. She said that Zthiopia was so closely influenced by Great Britain that the negroes in that territory could not leek for any future rapid advancement. a | | According tol in response te a question from the floor, Kra. l tv RQUYZSON stated that she did not propose that the United States Constitution should be serapped but rather that it should be made to work Uke the “corr able USSE constitution’.