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ie i} WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS LOLA GRAHAM DU BOIS Passport files contained the following summary of a speech given by Dr. Du Bois at the Hague on September 11, 1958: “le opened by saying that America has no policies for peace and is set out to commit suicide by inducing war. This aim is but for one reason; namely, to save American capitalism. Big business controls the press and keeps the people of the United States in darkness. The only people who fight for the salvation of the United States are the Negroes. "Ile said that the United States has but one interest— money, and that it is frightful the way it 'blieeds' and controis its allies. "United States denocracy is doing everything possible to. prepare for war. The connunists in America are ready to take over. "Private capital makes war to save itself and, he added the Soviet Union does not want war. It knows the evils of war and the United States does not. 't- "He condemned ROCSEVELT, his Works Progress Administratio progran, and said ROOSEVELT stopped socialism in the United States and gave the large United States corporations control of the United States. "Arain and again he reiterated that United States was big business, run by business, and that business was doing every- thing possible to start war against the Soviet Union and China. He also stated that not only did American business firms control the Government but that they control European businesses as well. This all brings hardships for the Negroes since they are the ones who understand the evils of this policy and as such, they cannot love their country, the United States.\v "Very briefly he inserted words that to some extent the Negroes avi weiug Ficed in the United States. That it has been his goal in life to have the Negroes speal: out for themselves.\, “At this point, Bu Bois looked up from his notes and said, 'It has taken me eleven years to obtain a passport... eleven years when I could not travel abroad, tv “He emphasized his belief that Europe should point out to the United States that it should recognize China (Communist China, he did not say). He also expressed the hope that Europe would ask the United States to cease its policy of fightin against communism." y