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NY 105-8999 SET “In other cities he got tougher. A cause is a cause, but trying to start an international racial war gets to be mighty dangerous." - The "New York Times", dated August 13, 1964, contained an article captioned "Malcolm X Seeks UN Negro Debate - ~ He Asks African States to Cite United States Over Rights". This article Gatelined Washington, August 12, states: "The State Department and the Justice Department have begun to take an interest in Malcolm X's campaign to convince African states to reise the question of persecution of American Negroes at the United Nations. "The Black Nationalist leader started his campaign July 17 in Cairo, where the 33 heads of independent African states held their second meeting since the Organization of African Unity was founded in Addis Ababa 14 months ago. oO “Before leaving for Cairo, Malcolm told friends in New York that it was his intention to add a new dimension to the civil rights struggle in the United States. This, he said, could be achieved by ‘internationalizing'’ the Negro | question at the United Nations in the manner that South African apartheid was transferred into an international problem. “Malcolm's eight-page memorandum to the heads of atate at the Cairo conference requesting their support became available here, only recently. After studying it, officials said that if Malcolm succeeded in convincing, just one African Govern- ment to bring ue the charge at the United Nations the United States Government would be faced with a touchy problem. ‘