The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-07-03

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the restaurants and saloons.
When North American coll
ored soldiers arrived in England
white North American officers
issued orders informing the
English people that they must
not treat colored North Amerl-
can soldiers as equals and they
must have no social contacts
with them. White North Amer
lean soldiers fought colored
North American soldiers in res
taurantS and pubs.
Similar stories come from
Hawaii, the South Sea Islands,
Australia, India, East Africa,
North Africa, Central Africa
and South America.
Mr.. Commander in-chief,
such conduct on the part of
white North Americans in the
Army and Navy surely gives
great comfort to the enemy.
Such behavior does havoc with
the four freedoms. When we
reflect that three-fourths Of
the population of the world are
colored people we get a pretty
sorry picture Of the intelli-
gence of the other fourth, the
minority, which includes white
North Americans.
1t is here in our country
from which all this miserable
business stems. AS we Content
plate the record we are
ashamed of it. We must do
something to check this vicious
trend before it brings deStruc-
ton of all the things we love
most dearly. Let us consult
the domestic record.
Pvt. Raymond Carr, while on
duty for his government, was
killed in cold blood by an Off
Ger of the State police of Lou
isiana. Nothing was done about
it.
On March %, 1912, Sgt.
Thomas B. Foster Of the United
States Army was shot to death
on the doorstep Of a church
in Little Rock, Arkansas, by a
member of the armed forces
of that city. Nothing was done
about this murder Of an Off
Ger of the United States Army
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On June %, 1912, Pvt
Charles j. Rice Of the United
States Army was murdered by
a member OF the armed forces
of Beaumont, Texas. Nothing
was done about this murder.
There have been numerous
cases of colored soldiers in the
] uniform of the United States
being beaten by civilian police
Many of these cases have re-
suited in death or injury for
life.
Resentment of ignorant
white police officers and civil
ianS over colored Army officers
resulted in the arrest, beating
and filming of 1t. and Mrs. Wall
of Fort Benning, Columbus
Georgia. 1t. Wall approached
the cashier of the Royal Thea
tire to buy tickets. He was in.
| formed that MS" tickets were
sold in the rear. The officer
thanked the cashier and walk.
ed away. H was stopped i'm
mediately by theater usheri
and a special policeman. Thes'
chastised him for the way the.
said he spoke to the cashier.
city policeman was called. H,
arrested the Lieutenant and hi
wife. At the police station
fourteen policemen beat tn
Lieutenant and his wife, boil
being put in a cell. The mex
day the Lieutenant was fine,
$500 for disorderly conduct.
In Montgomery, Alabama,
colored Corporal in uniform
was shot by a bus driver. TIL
bus driver first knocked tn
colored United States office
from the bus and then she
him.
At Camp Forest. Tennessee
| fifty white Military policeme.
, armed with tommy guns pu
: ten colored United States Off
GERS out of a camp theater be
cause they refused to accep
! iim-crow seats on fedora
!, property.
In Main Street station i
: Richmond. Virginia, colore
| soldiers stop by for meals o
: their way to other pointi
They are herded together an