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AO SEMA aes ST MES ome NY 105-8999 ‘ Ree I’ "Presh from a visit to the Muslim holy city of Mecoa and a tour of several African nations, Malcolm X is scheduled to return to New York Thursday afternoon, May 21, to launch a drive urging closer ties between American Negroes and Africans. "Maleoim hinted his new philosophy in a letter to the Amsterdam News in which he said that 'We can learn much from the strategy used by the American Jews. They have never migrated physically to Israel, yet their cultural, philosophical and psychological ties to Israel has enhanced their political, economic and social position right there in America. "'Pan Africanism will do for people of African decent all over the world the same that Zionism has done for Jews all over the world,' Malcoim wrote. "Malcolm's letters to this newspaper during his almost two months in Africa indicate something of a change in his position to work for closer ties with civil rights leaders and a lessening of his anti-white attitudes. During his visit to Mecca he was the guest of the government for 12 days and was treated as a diznitary in most of the places he traveled, his letters asserted." On May 23, 1964, MALCOLM X appeared on "Kup's Show", channel 7-TV, Chicago, Illinois. On the panel show he was asked if he was able to get into Mecca, a closed city by his own identifica- tion or did he have to pass some kind of test to prove that he was a Muslim. MALCOIM said he arrived in Cairo about 3:00 in the morning and his inability to speak Arabic plus his American passport made him automaticallya. suspect. So he was taken fromthe group that he : originally started out from Catro with and placed Stage -98- ats -