The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-23
French Woman Pays High
Tribute to Negro Soldiers.
By NINE. JEAN MOULIN.


Paris. France. Oct. 21.-Three his
toricaliy iadened years have been
quickly ushered into an unreturnable
past since there. arrived in France
the vanguard OF Americas superb
with Frances RED Hand" Division.
Two years have been retired info
the retrospect since what was left
OF Amerlcas 100000 intrepid swarthy
complexioned warriors embarked TO
return 10 their native land.
We were told even by their broth
ers OF white skin natives of the same
Iand OF liberty" before these black
soiaiers came among us that they
would rape our women.
It was with some alarm that we
viewed their landing at Bordeaux ST.
Nazair. Brest and other French ports
OF disembarkation. It was with the
feeling born Of uncomfortable fear
our midst and because their white
brothers had told U.S. before their
coming, that they would rape" our
women-even our girls OF tender
But IT was not long until our fears
were disarmed-not long until we
were made to know that those kind
hearted, strong limbed, valiant fight
ing american blacks had been gross
ly Hbeled and reviled They moved
courtesy and kindness was a Cod
given attribute; their valor and en-
durance matched that of our best
French troops They hufned their
plantation melodies in shell swept
dug-outs when water and germ-infest-
ed mud reached to their ankles; they
whistled and hummed in their char
fSt aSserISSi9 s,t pld5rtiye pptnre WAY, way Down on
fear while bursting, murderous, DEM
onicarly shreaking shells played, an
incessant tattoo on their battle fronts.
Napoleon's Iegions. and those who
never fought more .valiahtly and sub
bornly than Americas black troops
fought here in France.
Our women7 They were as safe
from harm at the hands of those
bronz-complexioned warriors as is vir-
tue behind the cloistered walls OF the
convent safe from evil at the hands
Of sanity prelates.
After meeting Americas heroic
black troopers. after having had them
among us. after being convinced of
how much they contributed to push
ing back from French soil the bru-
tai, fiendish Huns; after viewing the
graves in Flanders field where the
poppies abandonly grow red again
graves that are sepulchres for fallen
black heroes, we Frenchmen cannot
land the government permits the lyn-
chers, the red-handed. race-hating
mob rulers to stalk unrestricted
among these patient, loyal. splendid
Iy heroic blacks: why the American
colonists' mo taxation without rep
resentation" should not apply to
Americas millions of loyal blacks.
In France neither art heroism or
loyalty knows color line. The sa-
viors of land Of the fleur de lis are
heroes, whether their skin is as fair
as the lilies of France or as black as
the coal mined in Alsace-Lorain.
In France color prejudice. what
ever may be the faults of our coun-
try, is considered a crime against
Him who created man in His own
image"
In France. we learned long before
England's great poet. Robert Burns.
or black, for all Of that"
France will ever preserve in mem
ory, garlanded with gratitude, the
day Americas black soldiers came
among us. And France, too. will re-
call with sadness-deep regret, the
day Americas splendid. heroic black
Iegions bid adieu to France and em-
barked to return to their native land