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Roy Wilkins — Part 5
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According to an HID report dated 8-4-50, the
"Baltinore Afro-Anerican” on 8.1]~50, carried an article
tndicating that Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, in a letter addressed
to Secretary of the Army Pace, had asked for an innedtiate
tnvestigation of the manner in which colored troops were
treated tn Tokyo. Wilkins reportedly subnitted part of a i
letter recetved from an tnformant tn Tokyo, charging that -—
"racial dtscrinination here is as flagrant as it ts in i.
Georgia.” co
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WE 2:22 a letter dated 6-7-49, from Charles
Preston Howard addressed to Roy Wilkins, Editor, the "Crisis, "
20 West 40th Street, New York, NY., tn which Howard replied
to an editorial appearing in the May 1949 issue of the "Crisis"
entitled, "Robeson Speaks for Robeson," In the letter
Howard stated, "the editorial of course, cannot hurt Paul
Robeson whose position in Anerica and in International life
ts secure," 2
urnished a letter dated 8-15-50 which
Howard wrote to Roy Wilkins, Administrator, NAACP, 20, ¥.
40th Street, N.Y. The letter was apparently a reply to a
letter of August 8, fron Wilkins. Howard points out, in his
letter, the areas of hts disagreement with Wilkins’ conduct
of the policies and activities of the NAACP, He mentions
Wilkins’ wholehearted allegtance to the Democratic Party, hta
violent aninosity toward the Republican and Progressive
Parties and hia fight against "Left-Wingers." He takes tssue
with Wilkins' labeling everyone who disagrees with hin a
"Conrade" or "Communist." He reninds Wilkins that he "goes
overboard assaulting the people who have been your water
carriers over a long number of years." (Letter set out)
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