St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-03-24

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The pamphlet, well printed
among delegates attending the I
Conference for Africa.
Entitled "TO Our Dear Erie
entic report of how the American /
Negro is treated in the United
States.
Beginning with the salutation
Dear Brethren" is written in the
form Of a warm friendly letter
from the African Friends AAsocia-
ton to persons of dark skin in
Africa.
According to American officials
here, there Is no record Of any
such organization in the states.
Related, BY Ties OF Blood"
The booklet begins: I'VE men,
bers of the African Friends AS
ISOLATION living in the United
States and related to you by ties
of blood - we wish to express our
admiration for your achievements
in your struggle for independence
in Africa. We want you to be free
and happy, but we want to warn
you that your fight Is not yet over.
I'VE feel you must be on guard
against the new danger which
threatens you: the greedy hand Of
American Imperialism Is reaching |
out to grab the riches in your
countries"
1t then goes on to report the
following distortions:
Q Negroes in America are
slaves without any rights A Ne
gro could be shot or burned or
crippled"
"A Negro who dares to take
part in an election is doomed to
death. In 80 states, the Negroes
are deprived Of the right to vote
altogether"
IA Negro has no right to live
in the same place where the whites
live"
0 "13 million Negroes out of a
total of 10 million are illiterate."
. The Ku K1ux Khan is organ
izing special units of racist killers
to be sent to the Congo. The Amer
lean government supplies these
gangs with money and arms"
Show Pix OF Lynch Victims
Pictures of lynch victims hang
ing from trees and from buildings,
hooded Klansmen, the burning Of
a Negro and a cartoon of a dis
figured Statue of Liberty with a
Negro hanging from the arm illus
trate the text.
Several American Negroes in
Africa who have seen the pamphlet
were unanimous in their denuncia-
ton of it as a pack Of lies which
could be refuted by any African
who has been to the states"
Apparently the pamphlet was
designed with these two purposes
in mind; first to discredit the
United States in Africa and sec
ondly to discredit Afro-Americans
in the eyes Of white Americana
X. M. Kotschnig, an American
government observer attending the
Conference here attacked the
pamphlet as a blatant falsifica-
ton"
He said, according to the Eth
opian Herald, that the pamphlet"
was intended to hamper the good
relations, mutual understanding
and respect between my govern
ment and the African states by
certain groups who want to DEM
olish them"
Not Published In US.
DR.. Mekld Abbas, chairman Of
the conference, gave Kotschnig
permission to address the delegates
on the subject of the pamphlet.
Kotschnig stated that the style ,
and spelling of the pamphlet makes
it clear that 1t was not published
in the United States" He pointed
out that one Of the illustrations in
the pamphlet was a cartoon which
had earlier appeared in Krekodil,
magazine published in Russia.
American officials state that the
pamphlet Is still under investiga-
ton by the us. Government. They
limited that its origin Is known but
declined further comment until the
investigation is completed.
These officials concede the pos
sibility that the pamphlet Is re-
lated to the earlier appearance Of
a letter purportedly sent by the
Ku Klux Khan to African UN dele
gates.
Part Of the reluctance Of Amer
lean officials to discuss the pamp-
hlet may be due to an allegation
that the pamphlet was distributed
in certain areas Of Africa by some
African government agencies.
When asked about this, State
Department official said, obvious
Iy, we may not want to make any
public statement until we have