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no one has ever questioned sy race's loyalty except a few people who don't amount to yery much. "what I'n trying to get across is.. that the American public is off on the wrong feet 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 oganized boycott by 15,o0o,000 members of his race. rI can't speak for any 15,00o,000 pegle any more than any other one personcan, 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 andfaiths 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 an 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 outdf almost any thousand colored Americans you meet will tell you the same thing. "But that doesn't mean that we're. going to stop fighting race dis- crimination in this country until we've got it licked. It means that we're going to fight it all the harder because our stake in the future is so big. We can win our fight without the communists and we dn't want their help." CONFIDENTIAL: 1.00~4Q8$5O-N0T RECORDED