The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-10-27
BY TED POSITION
(Reprinted From the NY. POST

BY TED POS1ON
reprinted From the NY. POST
DR.. w. E. Burghardt Du-
Bots, author, educator, and
authority on world affairs, is
a man hard to discourage.
For exactly 45 years out OF
his II distinguished years,
he has been trying unnecessarily.
10 organize permanent Pan.Af-
rican Congress. a functioning
group which would mobilize world
public opinion against the political
and economic exploitation Of
colonial peoples.
This morning-if the British
government will grant him a visa
he will board a plane for London
in his his eighth attempt to get =
permanent organization going.
And I think we'll succeed this
time" he said in his book-crammed
Office at SIS w. And street, for our
delegates will be mainly from the
colonial trade union movement. A
large number OF them right now
are attending the World Trade
Union Congress in Paris. and
they'll meet us in London on Oct.
Is"
DR.. Dubois attendance at the
opening of the new Pan-African
Congress depends on the British
visa. however. and His Majesty's
Government has not always looked
kindly on his dream.
The British first encountered the
dream officially in 1900 when
Queen Victoria received a petition
for Pan-African conference called
in London by DR.. Dubois and
Harold Williams, West Indian
barrister, and addressed by the
Lord Bishop OF London and COL
eridee Taylor.
State Dept. Refused
PASSPORTS To Negroes
We protested the treatment ~
the natives in the organization Of
South Africa he recalled II
VAS a good beginning. but We lost
out or our hopes Of permanent
ganization y
In 1919 during the Versailles
Conference. DR. Dubois convened
his second effort. Psn-Afrlcan
Congress Of Africans. West In
dams, Americans and other colon
ais There we're few American
Negroes preser; however.
The State Department wouldn't
give US passports" he reniulsced
They thought we might embarrass
Americas position az Versailles
Dr. Dubois. already famous
then rs an author and recognized
Negro leader. beat the State Dept.
ban. He merely signed up as q
newSpaperman on George CreeTs
press ship, and WAS well nj sea
before the officials identified the
reporter for Crisis Magazine as
the same man who had called the
Paris Pam African Congress.
TIE 1919 meeting vas successful,
and Dr.. Dubois presented lis reso-
lu.ions 20 Colonel House after
vain attempt 10 see Pres.den; wal
son. But again the dream 81
permanent organization Aasn't
realized
The dream almost became
reality in 1921 when wore than 200
colonial. British ard American
delegates held a three-day Pan
African Congress in London, Brus-
sells ard Paris,
y, was a real international con-
Cress." re recalls. and VIC received
permission from the French Min
ister Of Colonies to establish = per-
ranent headquarters in Paris A
totally unexpected development
ihwaTted this plan.
In New York City neSsianic
West Indian leader named Marcus
Gsrvey suddenly hit the headlines
with an Observation-Disclosures
movement. and the colony-holdinG
nations became quite disturbed
The Paris permission was abruptly
Withdrawn and the British gov
eminent assigned special conf
dental agent IA. sharow Dr. Du-
Bo;s, whot rhcv suspected Of being
q GdrNcy agent
Recalls Effective Parlcys
In Lisbon and London
"Garvey finally cot us out Of
that dilemma by denouncing us
even more bitterly than he did
the imperialist powers" he said.
But We had lost our immediate
chance for permanency In the