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NAACP — Part 2
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NY 100-7629
; "Poo Little Attention has been paid by Oi
- Americans to the fact that for more than a half 4)
century a rebellion has been growing among twoe-
thirds of the people of the world who are colored
against the twin and related evils of racism and
coloninalism....If for no other roason than
enlightened solfishnoss, the white world shculd have
awakened long since to the fact that long before
the October revolution in Russia in 1917 there was a
bitter revolt against oxportation of the raw materials
and peoples of Asia, Africa and Letin America",
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The author states that the delegates at
the convention took a slightly different viow of
world affairs. In dealing with "peace and impcrial-
ism" the delegates resolved: "Imperialism, the rule
of cno naticn by another, elther directly or through
a satcllite or subservient govornment, is unjust and
e threat to world peace" and the resoluticn called
for the setting up cf free governments in Inco-China,
Tunis, Morocco and other French colonies and asked
that no Americon troops be sent "to Indo-China unless
it is to protect free and soveroign governments",
A debate develcped on two paragraphs in the
"Labor and Industry" rosolutions which barrod cocpera~
tion of the NAACP with the Negro Labor Council and
international unions expelled by the CIO, A motion
tc strike the offending paragraphs lost by a show of
hands with about a score of delegates voting to
strike, However, more than a third of the delegates
present failed to vote either way,
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It is to he n@ded that the Naticnal Negro
Labor Council has been designated by the Attorney
General of the Unitcd Statcs pursuant tc Executive
Order 10450,
a The article states that many of the delegates
. may heve canpromised their consciences on the anti-«-
Communist socticns of the resolttions, but es o whole
the delegates expressed their feclings in the anti~
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