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_-this new venture with. which he was not then associated with, no amall degree of jealousy), has now tworked' his way in and is very interested in the management of the concern, elthough he holds no official position in it. Ekarte's record in Negro Welfare in Liverpool is an unsavoury one and vell known to the police. He has been interested in Negro Welfare for his-own personal gain for many years. Duplan is at present.in the United States of America organizing leoturesa and concerts for the purpose of raising funds to enable the Negro Welfare Centre to carry out its latest scheme, I.E. to arrange to transfer to America the children born of coloured American troops in this country during the War. Mr. Kendall, the solicitor referred to earlier in this report, 1s without doubt unaware of the questionable back- ground of the Negro Welfare Centre and I am informed that he is sincerely interested in what appears to him to be a porfectly genuine proposition to send to America the children born of coloured American troops in this Country. Mr. Kendall has stat- ed to people who have spoken to him on the subject, that several fathers of the children concerned had already written from America offering to adopt the children and that the Negro Welfare Centre hias &lready approached the Home Office with & view to obtaining the guidance of the Home Secretary on the question of the legal-. ity of adoption of these children by people in America, having regard to the fact that at the present time the law of adoption 4s such that no legal adoption of children born in this Country can take place by people living outside the United Kingdon. Ekarte is paying special interestto the proposal to trans~ fer these children to America and ho is undorstood to have receliv- ed a letter from Mrs. Eleanor oosevelt oxpressing her support of the scheme. a a r — Ioan informed that the whole matter of sending these children to America hes been placed before the Liverpool Parlia- mentary Group with a view to the question being raisedon the floor of the House of Commons. I understand that the League of Coloured people in America are intcrested in the scherno, as also is the Pan- African Federation, whose headquarters are in Manchester. tt Dec em i ee ee hann mata nm lane be 61 Mareen Wat Pinona Aantrna wag ps 4m Ro YoU, , Puois macs Vi aie vo \ us noRS ws Wehet As SF WHA by the Pan-African Federation and similar organizations in thia County, that whilst they were interested in the scheme they would take no official action until the Home Secretary's ruling concerning adoption has been obtained. “a, Tee aed ey “ See ee = as INE . Sate peo ERS Peres sods ae re ox Ae rs <i RMR Tes