The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-11-19
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

The United Nations should at this
time map the road to African self
government and vince African
leaders that map is presented with
honesty and sincerity, declares Emory
Ross, general secretary of the Foreign
Mission Conference of North America
in the November Survey Graphic. His
views are especially timely now, with
Africa in top place in world news.
Twenty-three leading journalists,
scientists, scholars, public officials,
spokeSmen for races and regions plead
in this special number entitled Color
Unfinished Business of Democracy
for the abolishment of race prejudice
to strengthen our. war effort and to in
crease our influence in world affairs.
America is already tied with Africa
| by economic cords which cannot be
quickly broken when fighting ceases,
Ross continues. African production is
now coming to the United States and
Africa's outside supplies, including
machinery and materials for creating
new industries, come from here. But
greedy forces will be marShalled to
| stop this process after the war for
"Some of the easiest living which the
| induStrialized countries have had has
| been at the expense of backward
! countries and . once the pressure of
war is lifted, it may be easier to CON
vince America that backward people
must share more evenly in goods and
tools and service than it will be to
convince the more imperialistic coun-
| tries which rule the colonies
Yet, after the war, when uncertainty
and dislocation and diSillusion are
likely to be worse than ever before,
Americans, white and black, will be
called to great thought and action for
Africa. I'VE shall be off the mark
from the viewpoint of the African and
| from the viewpoint of a secure Amer
lea and a stable world if we are not
motivated by the Christian ethic and
| directive,' concludes Ross.
X X X
One of the several underground
| Danish papers, The Free Danes,' re-
cement, even that about to be delivered
! 10 building trades on the main island
Of the Kingdom, Siaelland, suddenly
has disappeared. There is no more
cement. the reason?
"Nery simple that the Germans in
their panic fear of an English invasion
| of the .Jutland and Norway have COM
mandeered all cement to Sjaelland and
sent it to Jutland for their vast forti-
| lication along the west coast. Twenty
| thousand tons were sent to Norway to
be used there. Even Norway's national
rock baStionS Will not suffice, 50 the
Germans evidently think, if the inva-
| sion comes
The reprisals for their recent gen
eral strike have swiftly fallen on the
brave working people of little Lux
omburg. The same OdiuS oppression
and torture applied to her countries
| by the NaZi conquerorS has now be
| fallen the Grand Duchy. Mass de-
portation is reported in full prepara-
tion, hostages have been taken from
among prominent labor leaders and
| some of them have been shot
\ perhaps more barbaric cruelty
is announced by the Nazi authorities,
namely that the children will be taken
away from those Luxembourg parents
who do not show sufficient understand
! inc Of NaZi rule and the New Order"
| In such cases it is said the NaZiS de
Stroy all identity papers of the chill
dren, 50 that they are forever lost to
| their parents.