The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-07-31
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It vii be remembered, has been appearing before the
representatives Of the apOHeuI United States Army,
which seeks says, ascertain whether ne IS EFT for
further Army seAice. Transating that into words We
can al understand, the Army has been trying Rev Fuller
TO see whether afford 10 have II It's ranks man
who has dared 70 bring INTO the open the whole sorry
business Of discrimination. brutality and utter lack Of
gard for democracy that the Army openly and without
shame practices against It's darker forces.
Rev. Fuller, be Il understood Is not the 0nlv ndi-
yduz to have exposed The paradox Of sending thousands
Of men into battle 10 bring Democracy and the Four Free
dos 70 North Africa and the South Pacific while deny
ing the iest shred Of American freedom and justice 70
large segment Of the very who dying 70 main
tain Wanted traditions Other chspIsins before
him, one particular. another Bostonisn have escaped
his trial. By the nzuOwest margins; Hon. William
HASTE resigned his post with the War Department BE-
cause his sensbes could longer stand the sickening
stencil that the treatment Of coored soldiers and sailors
aroused to al Eho knew any Of the facts Walter White
Of the NAACP has travelled hundreds Of miles bringing
the aresdywelknowH conditions 70 the attention Of
apparently asjgmatic Washington ofclas None Of the
efforts Of these men, however served to 50 re the
department did the Rev. Mr.. Chaplain Fuller who took
dispositions from the mig1reated men themselves and
caused them 10 be brought before the officials who pre-
EunsDy have been trying him.
For this crime Rev. Fuller faced committee Of MS
superors determine his fitness for further service in
witnesses ne has faced the combined might Of the Armed
Forces But ne stands there before them alone the
militant fearless and determined minister IS wagng the
battle Of whole race Of people. He represents not
Luther Fuller an individual whom many Ike and some
dislike but the colored people, twelve million Of them.
War Department, but TRYING THE WAR DEPART
NENT from the lowest corporal who addresses coored
troops as n.~..-s, TO the great Commsndern-Chief,
who has the power call abrupt halt any al Of
the evils which beset the coored who serves his
country. Rev Fuller and the people ne stands for
the War Department Of a. having permitted At least five
colored in Uniform be killed by Southern officers
civilians within the past year without melting out the
least punishment their murderers ~ Of caously
Sisting vicious program Of segregated regiments in
the Army and whole sections Of segregated in the
Navy, with definite ceilings the possible Offices COL
ored may hold in most Of the armed services ~ Of
fostering encouraging permittng-or all Of them
negecful and brutal treatment colored men and
in the service by their whesuperiOrs; "a Of dis
respectfully disregarding al Of the rights and privileges
due coored chaplains and other officers at home and
abroad 81 Of failing 70 provide adequate protection for
colored in the services in sections Of the country
where coored lives and rights little respected; ~
Of permitting ordering segregation Of colored
those foreign shores they have reached % Of failing
every respect and detail grant 10 the coored
and who fighting single one Of the four
freedoms they seek carry the rest OF the world and
49, Of employing handkerchieheaded moral eunuchs Of
race 10 whftewash these conditions whenever
there is danger Of the world knowing them.
Yeg Luther Fuller stands before the War Board but
the War Board trial And twelve million Of their
accusers with untold millions Of members Of other
who stepped in the American tradition Of right fair
and justice demand verdict Of Guilty for the War
Department and penalty Of immediate change in the
entire seup Of the Armed Forces This change CAN be
made in spite Of he predonance Of Southern leadership
in our armed affairs, It from the officers,
from the men, from the Congress and most Of all from
our President 1T MUST CONE. The mockery Of pre-
tending to carry torch TO the world while dwelling in
total darkness is fooling but ourselves Hitler
points out the mockery his radio nightly Hirohit0
holds up the lighting Chinese what they may
pect from American victory Japan The veriest
sthoochd, colored and white Is having his loyalty
and faith constantly and reentegy assaled by what he
sees in the VERY ARMY OF DEMOCRACY.
Members Of the War Department, Mr.. President, and
The American People This i the showdown; let's have
the cards-ALL' Of them-on the table. Either are
sincerely fighting make democratic world are
seeking conditioned. partial Democracy in which
TO have part but the American colored If
it is to be the latter then for the sake Of all believe
in let's admit It and proceed that miserable basis.
But If it is the former then LET'S HAVE AN IMMEDI-
ATE, WHOLESALE HONEST-B EFORETHE-GOOD-
GOD HOUSECLEANING, beginning in the United States
Army which trying Rev Fuller and continuing through