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Footy ee Ts i k .* Teo - MARSHALL PLAN. and the atom bonib politi of ‘Truman and “Dewey are now visiting civil w upon the largest Negro rights organization in the coun- gsocia i dvancement ored Peoples. .-- aera | Last Monday afternoon Dr. W. E. pes, NAACP director of research, was fired by the ‘Association's board - for having questioned the objectives of America’s foreign policy as administered by the Truman-Dewey coalition. . The excuse given by the board for ousting Dr. Du- Bois, a founder of the association, is that he made his. complaint public before it came officially before it. Dr. DuBois’ memo on foreign policy had condemned the bipartisan foreign policy as being against the colonial people and opposed to UN civil rights’ action. He charged Mrs, Eleanor Roosev elt had announced she would resign rap Ps Mas ” peewee ee ore & her UN “if any other nation brought UP, the civil ~ . rights issue. . we Me “yo ~ Ae 4 - Under such conditions he opposed. having Walter 4 x Zs Association secretary, represent the NAACP as’. a consultant for the American delegation:: -.° + 2 om, 1 - s White, himself, has been active on the political front - So, =" in his Herald-Tribyne column, having attacked the can- . a _4 ae didacy of Henry J allace twice there recently. He sailed ; 1 1} ee oe ee *, for Paris with“the American UN delegation the aame . INDEXED . rn] afternoon Dr. DuBois was fired. + ~ The issue seems pretty clear: A Marshall Plan tm: perialist foreign policy against a policy of anti-imperial ee ism and colonial freedom. ~. *.: x CORDED a Dr. DuBois, an outstanding and revered Jeader of - ‘ 8 eset GEESE the Negro people, has been ousted by fhe organization - 78 SEP 20 1st which he helped found because he insists that the organi- = 7 . zation remain in the fight for freedom. .As a supporter - ---- —e em of Henry“Wallace, he sought in politics the program which * coe se most closely approached the NAACP program against «, rm _. gimcrow and imperialism. ~..--'.* ‘ : Thie is a clipping from -—---- -- 2 Arthur Spingarn, Association board chairman, after Page a of the - ~oting to fire Dr, DuBois, said of him: “He ip one of the . Daily Worker ...= .... “ greatest leaders of his race and will be Jong remembered “ ao, gratefully by all who value- freedom." {tut Date ? S$- 4 ff .a* Did the leaders of the NAACP, in kicking Dr: DuBois Clipped at the Beat of : t, turn their backs on the fight for freedom? . - Governuent: > " .§ That is the question which they wil now have to answer to the members and friends of the organization...3: r ; Wr _ -* OD SEP 2270/8 oe ao, tome: ce a) fone