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: Me Htchels 4. Jones Fror z Subjects ROY WILKINS a BIECUTIVE SECRETARY NATIOWAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT Fae OF COLORED PEOPLE (NA&CP) The New York Office by letter dated 82-56 forwarded a letter recetved by Walter Fincheil. The letter written to Finchell ta anonynous ard tg an attack on Negroes, parttcularly the WAACP, The anonyrous letter writer quotes Wilkina as saying before the Bahat Assenbly, 119 Fest 57th Street, in 194], that "We Negroes are praytng for a Japanese victory." According to the {anonymous letter, during the question _,pertod {2 Ran stttt: tn the audtence ingutred ‘hy do you want a Japanese victory.” Filkineg supposedly replied "Because the Japs wtll gtue use a better deal. You white people gave us a rotten deal. Valter Winchell has wrttten tn the margin, "Ia thte true?” A review of the numerous references to Wilkins tn Buftles Satie to reveal such an tnetdent. The fllea do reflect that Wilkine supposedly desortbed hts conversation with another Negro tn Caltfornia ‘tn 194d quoting the other Negre as saying, "I do not know why we are fighting the Japanese. They have notdone anything to ne. When I go to a hotel ‘operated by wmiite people they either tel] me that they are ful] or that they do not accept colored people, and here tn Caltfer:zta there wae only one hotel at which I could stay and that hotel was run by the Japanese, so why should we . Sight the Japs." Wilkins further described the Japanese aa betng the best truck farmers tn Amertea and "They are the backbone of thts country. This informatton te the result of Agent coverage of a meeting at which Wilkins spoke, (100~164629-11) The only other sintlar reference ta the following supposedly satd by Wilkins at an open forum on 1}]-1-42 at Partland, Oregon are also concerned with the world front...Justice for ot} and not just foi sone. We cannot just sit here in Partland and say we will de @s we pleas After this war, we will have no separation fron other places, ‘The world ta too enall.....Why do you suppose that Japan took Java, country of forty million people tn one week....They were already EO the people who were over then. It nade no difference to ther wio was } Bae. sieve driu er a t 4 cs oe ut Frolosyng eee come INFORMATION CONTAINED 43 2 Z 2 270- 1S. 4. cima ‘ “ae ae HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED ESSE ONE Tal an he we (Sar eit cs ae | AT -