7~ Crr>r:s msm There are millions of sueh people who now ... is the alternative to Communism for such peoples? Certainly not the leadership of the Western democracies ... No Voice

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There are millions of sueh people who now with ever greater urgency demand a new deal.

Communism offers mass literacy, economic development and the end of white supremacy. That it does not offer politcal democracy seems unimportant.

What is the alternative to Communism for such peoples? Certainly not the leadership of the Western democracies if they only offer free enterprise their pc.nnnn^p. pnlftnv- Free

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the,,white. But equally they reject a trusteeship which keeps . them backward and devolves authority on effete and reactionary ruling classes.

There is only one democratic answer to the Communist?? representations, - mass literacy, and economic delveopment.Mr. Gardin°r has dealt with the need for increased representations, Literacy is almost as important. The Russians and the Chinese have proved that conscription can the most powerful educational force among prmitive peoples, as well as providing the labor V for opening up undeveloped areas. In a small way we found the same thing during the w§r, and I believe we shall have to* use it again in peace time, despite the alarm it will cause . in Kenya and South Africa. /

On the f^conomic side too we must adopt the same principle. Socialist economics- Sta^e ownership of the basic industries and State control of other industries and trade are the only basis for democracy in backward areas-.

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What is needed in Africa, in the Ktiddle East, in India is Western capital and Western techniques but genuinely at tha. service of the peoples. I believe for instance that one long term solution of the Middle Eastern problem is a Jordan Valley authority built with British and American capital and by British and American engineers, but controlled entirely by an independent Jewish commonwealth and by independent Arab neighbor States. But we need not merely one JVA but dozens of similar enterprises all over the backward arpas which can bring to the poverty-stricken millions the economic basis of freedom.Within our Colonial Empire we are getting down to the job with the financial resources at our disposal. But this is a far bigger task than one country can carry alone. It involves the relationship not merely of Britain to her Colonies but of Western democracy to the backward peoples. On that depends whether the One World which is coming anyway is a communist world or a democractic world. If we only offer fres enterprise and sham political democracy, it will be a Communist world.The issue today is whether an Am rica, which still believes in free enterprise, will collaborate with a Socialist Britain in laying the economic foundations on which world democracy can be established.

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Following World War I, Great Britain, the Union of South Africa,Australia, New Zealand, France and Belgium were given authority by the League of Nations over the colonial territories formerly held by Germany and Turkey. With the end of World War II, all of these powers holding such territories called mandates - with the exception of the Union of South Africa - have indicated their intention of bringing the mandate territories under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Trusteeship Council. The Union of South Africa, alone among these manda­tory powers, has declared for outright annexation of its mandate, South-West Africa, and seeks sanction from the United Nations for this action.

The Mandate System

After the defeat of Germany, in the 1914-18 war, General Smuts, South African Premier at the time, tried hard to obtain outright concession of S.W.A. (South-West Africa), then occupied by South African troops. World opinion and pledges given by Allied leaders strongly opposed annexation of ex-enemy territories.

A compromise was found in a formula worked out by General Smuts. Ex­enemy colonies were to be placed under "mandate" of certain of the Allied powers, who were responsible for them to the Leaeue of Nations. Mandates were widely regarded ss a "veiled form of annexation."

South Africa received S.W.A, as a mandate of the C class. Other C class mandates were Snmao (New Zealand), New Guinea and Southern Pacific Islands (Australia) and Northern Pacific Islands (Japan). All other mandated territories in Africa fall into the B class (Tanganyika, Ruanda-Urundi, Cameroons and Togoland). South African propaganda places great stress on the difference between B and C mandates, and on the fact that S.W.A. is the only C mandate in Africa.

The essential difference between B and C class is that the principle of the "open door" does not apply to C mandates. In B mandates, subjects of the mandatory power may not be given economic advantages over nationals of other States in matters such as trade or investment. South Africa, New Zealand and Australia objected to this restriction. For this reason the C class of mandates was instituted.

South Africa's RecordLegalistic arguments about the wording of a mandate are less important

than the question whether South Africa has carried out the terms of its trust and whether incorporation would be better than trusteeship for the peoples concerned.

The population of S.W.A. at the 1936 census consisted of 287,731 Africans and Coloured (mulatto) and 30,677 Europeans. Africans and Colored are segregated, except for labor purposes, in reserves having a total area of about 4-6,300 square miles, forming just under 15 per cent of the total area of S.W.A,

In the Ovamboland and Okavango reserves, in the extreme north of the territory, live about 150,000 Africans. Forming more than half of the non-white population, their reserves constitute only 5^ per cent of S.W.A.

South Africa describes the system of administration in these reserves as being one of "indirect rule." In theory this means that the people live undis­turbed under their chiefs. In practice it means that practically nothing is being done to promote their moral and material welfare ss required by the mandate.

Education, for example, is in the hands of missionaries, some of whom receive Government grants. In 1935 the Government spent only^.200 on African education in Ovamboland, and there was no Government inspection or supervision of schools. Hospital facilities are provided only by mission societies, and on a scale that is hardly noticeable.

A Regime of Coercion and Discrimination

The rest of the people, including almost sll Europeans, live in what is known as the police zone. The system of administration follows closely that of the Union.

Pass laws apply outside the reserves to all non-Europeans, a stringent Vagrancy Law is used to force Africans to work for an employer, the main provisions of the Union Native (Urban Areas) Act are in force, and workers are subject to the terms of a Native Labour Regulation Proclamation,

Shortly after taking over the mandate, South Africa was severely criticised by the Mandates Committee for ruthless and inhuman suppression of the Bondelswarts, a Hottentot people who rebelled against the Government in 1922,

Since then there has been no major scandal, but South Africa has at various times been pulled up by the committee for neglecting the interests and welfare of the indigenous population.

Neglect of Education and Health

This neglect continues. The Hereros, for example, who were bitterly oppressed by the Germans, and who showed great opposition to European rule, re­fused to have missionaries in their reserves. As a result, they had no schools until 1936, when the Government opened one school.

The latest figures (1939-4-0) show an expenditure ofill40,H7 on European education and 20,552 on African and Colored education. Average costs are: per scholar, European, 17 7s, 6d. ($69.50); Non-European, £ 3 13s, ($14.60); per head of population, European,^ 4 7s, 7d. ($17,53); Non-European, ls.6d, (31 cents).

Health conditions are extremely poor among non-Europeans, Tuberculosis, smallpox, and venereal diseases, all unknown before European colonisation, are now rife, and whole communities, especially among Hereros and Bondelswarts, are being wiped out by these diseases.

Plague broke out in S.W.A. for the first time in its history in 1932 and typhus occurred for the first time in 1934. Under Union administration non- European health standards have been reduced. Yet the total expenditure on public health in 1939-40 was only £ 14,876, most of which went into hospitals and medical services for the European population.

No Voice in Government

In his speech to the U.N.O, last January Mr, Heaton Nicholls, the South African governments spokesman, claimed that S, W. A. "has its own self-governing institutions. It has a Legislative Assembly elected on the basis of adult franchise, , , and there exists an advisory council on which the native population is represented, whose duty it is to advise on all questions of reserved legislatim."

He omitted to add that the "adult franchise" is confined to Europeans, and that the member of the advisory council who "represents" non—Europeans is a government official, also European, appointed by the Administrator,

THE REQUEST FOR THE INCORPORATION OF SOUTH-WEST AFRICA BY THE UNION SHOULD BE REJECTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS, AND THE TERRITORY SHOULD BE PLACED UNDER THE DIRECT JURISDICTION OF THE U.N. TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL, BECAUSE*

1, THE UNION HAS FAILED TO FULFIL HER OBLIGATIONS TO THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE MANDATED AFEA.

2, AN OPPRESSIVE AND UNDEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN APPLIED TO THE AFRICAN AND COLORED PEOPLE IN THE TERRITORY.

3, THE UNION'S TREATMENT OF HER OWN NON-EUROPEAN POPULATION SHCWS THAT THE PRESENT RULING CLASS IS UNFIT TO BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF OTHER PEOPLES.

(The above explanation, with the exception of the first paragraph, is extracted from an article entitled "South-West Africa: Trusteeship or Annexation?" by H, Miller, published in Freedom z [Johannesburg'? , February 1946.)

In addition to the above facts, it should be noted that:

* South-West Africa has valuable resources, notably diamonds, vanadium, other minerals, cattle and hides, which 8re under the control of South African corporations which reap big profits from the cheap exploited labor of African workers in the territory;

* S.W.A. is another reservoir of African labor for the gold mines in the Union of South Africa;

* The African National Congress and other major organizations in the Union of South Africa, as well as Africans in other territories, have registered their firm opposition to the annexation of S.W.A.;

* African leaders in the Union, in S.W.A, and in Bechuanaland, a British colony adjacent to S*F,A., have been prevented from leaving the country and bringing before the world and the United Nations their arguments against the Union of South Africa's expansion aimsj

* the government of the Union of South Africa has prevented interested organizations such as the South African Institute of Race Relations,and even such an eminent writer on African affairs as Lord Hailey, from entering S, W. A. in order to canvass the opinion of the African and other non-white population regarding annexation - the government contending that this would conflict with its own "survey" and cause confusion in the minds of the people questioned.

The full story in regard to these matters and other aspects of the claim of the South African government to South-West Africa are set forth in "SOUTH AFRICA MUST ANSWER TO THE UNITED NATIONS", a pamphlet shortly to be published by the Council on African Affairs. Facts regarding South Africa's treatment of its own African population are vividly portrayed in the pemphlet, "8 MILLION DEMAND FREEDOM.' What About It, GEN. SMUTS?" , another Council pamphlet now available.

The Council on African Affairs calls unon the American people, through their organizations, to send communications immediately to Mr. Trygvle Lie.

Secretary-General of the United Nations and to Secretary of State James Bvrnes, orotestiiig against annexation o.f South-West Africa.

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"Mta.Sethemba"Dr. ".3. vuma M.D., D.P.H. P.O. Crsdock

Y.M.C.A. South Africa180 - I35th St. All Saints' Day 1946NEW YORK CITY

'My dear ^resident General,■\lthough you have gone to America for treatment and recuper-

-tion your people in South frica will expect to hear from you when return that you did represent them at the U.N.O. somehow.

How are you going to do it? God wij.1 make a v/ay for you.T’re have be -n praying hard for a leader and we feel that God has answered our prayers in giving us you although we do not seem to show our appreciation. The African National Congress has advanced a great deal under your leadership, and there is no doubt that if you are allowed to continue leadership for a few more years we may find

ourselves surprised with the strides we shall have made.General Smuts has disappointed us in many ways but most of

all after this last war; because he must have known that we looked to him to give us freedom.

I was glad to get your letter from 'Eliza jethvi^Ie. I had been ioo -king forward to it for some time after your telegram.

*** I have^travelling about a great deal as Chairman of the kf icar. Parents’ Association which was formed recently at King ”ix iams Town to consider the. Question of strikes at af ican Institutions.

4 committee consisting of Dr. Bokwe, Professor Jabavu, Mr Kwinana,Mr. Ngxlki, T?r. ’galoshe and I was appointed to interview the Heads of of Institutions, and we have already met Dr. Shepherd and his enate at “ovedale. ,,rhilst I was travelling about for this I also travelled to assist Congress branches to give suitable evidence before Fagan’s Comrn- -ssion on Native laws. I got no assistance financially anywhere and as you know my daughters are a_l in training. I have spent close on

£20 including correspondence and telegrams. The Paramount Chief hasagain elected me to be Chairman of is Inkundla and this involves also very expensive travelling; but all this I enjoy for it ..leans that 1 can still be of use to my people.

111 he Ftsikana Memorial Organisation has a following of thousands of our people and I have now succeeded in healing tiie breach between X>10s **' 0 in that almost in all branches there are Flngo as

of the Local Committee.I am sorry, you will not be at home when the Interdenominational

African "inisters1 Conference takes place at ophiatown. he pro--moters will miss you for several very important*reasons. I have not yet had time to sit down to think what 1 shall say to the Ministers in my Presidential 'ddress. I am relieved to know that I shall not have to deputise you at the Mational Conference at Bloemfontein.I worked all night last night and I am writing tfcffi. letter at 8 a.m. in my Church Trestry as I am waiting for the Children's service to start „

re Teakfast before IC . jfe and may not have it at aii, for --r. 'kena is very ill at the hospital with Constipation and e: tended ' iv va# • t Dctors cant get him right. I have ere often.

,re asked me to remember him to you. e is cheerful.".rs "uma has written to say that Dawa is not feeling bright but

Coocoo i3 much better. I was aj.so glad to hear from her.The Transkel is ready "or Congress. At Mtata Icontacted a lot of teacher

inisters of religion but there was no time for a meeting as t..e * days were crowded. Although I missed the great ' loemfontei Conference

Id ao 3 •• -ark I establish! ose contacts. Theranskeian 3’umga is also waking up to its responsibilities. I wonder

if we could not influence it to take the sa e line as the Pretoria one.It mi - t not be too easy wit hi Jingoes like akwe but I think Chief Poto

* . . . 1 ato create an intel igence group there*

return feeling better in ftody, mindtand spirit, fi lot of work awaits you on your return. I should like to write longer but my time .is up and I must start the Chi_dren’ s service. "a think of you. "’e shall pray foy for theU.N© 0. at this service.5^0 children of my school are just gat er.ing for their Communion as this is All aints Day. Ma„ we live to join that Company of men and women with happy memories when our day comas.

Good bpe Doctor,Yours for Africa,

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Dr. A.B. Xuma,104 End Street,D00RNF0NTEIN,Johannesburg.

Dear Sir,I regret I overlooked at the last meeting of B.W.T.

Trustees to bring forward Mr. Reinhalt-Jones1 suggestion that a Peoples Bank for natives and mainly managed by natives should be considered and discussed.

I suggest therefore that a special meeting to dis­cuss this matter be held at my office at 12noon on Thursday at which your presence is invited.

Yours faithfully,

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Dr . A . B . Xuma% Council on African Affairs 23 West 26th Street New York, New YorkDear Dr. Xuma*.

During our first annual conference this year, October 4th through 6th, you were among the Africans nominated for a certificate of merit, based upon your record and service in South Africa.

Now that you are here in the country, I see no more appropriate occasion to present you this certificate- than at our "One World " dinner to be held at the Hotel Capitol, 51st. Street and Eighth Ave on Friday, November 22nd, at 7*30 P.M.

Aside from presenting you with a certificate of merit, you will be allowed to bring a message from the people of South Africa, for ten minutes.

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On December 31, 1938, seven young Africans left Nigeria, W est Africa, to study in America. They were eager to learn American ways and scientific methods to apply to their country. They found friendliness, but they also found the color line. They found gross misconcep­tions about Africa and the African people— the more serious because of the current world situation.

They needed a place to secure information, to meet and exchange ideas. They felt the need for some organi­zation to spread the truth about Africa and its people.

As a result, in November 1943, the African Academy of Arts and Research was founded by K. Ozuomba Mbadiwe.

Over 4,000 requests for information were received, and over 800 different African students, seamen and others used the headquarters. The students came from South Africa, Uganda, Ethiopia, British Somaliland, Egypt, French Equitorial Africa, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Liberia and Nigeria.

The Academy produced the brilliantly successful African Dance Festival in Carnegie Hall, New York, in 1943 and 1945— now an annual event. It was also con­ducted at Norfolk in 1945. Over 10,000 people have seen the Festivals.

The Academy established the annual Willkie Award, to be given to the person who has contributed most in the past year to improving race relations and inter­national understanding.

It cooperated with the American Council on African Education, whose function is to secure scholarships in American schools for African students. 125 scholarships have been secured by the Council.

It published a booklet, Africa Today and Tomorrow, and a monthly news bulletin, the African Eagle, which reaches approximately 6,000 people.

It conducted a series of six lectures, "So This Is Africa," at the Museum of Natural History in New York, on the economic life, government and history of Africa. The last was on April 13, 1946. Total attendance was 3,000.

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In January 1946, the Board of Directors decided to enlarge its membership in America and Africa, geo­graphically and interracially, and to include representa­tion from the labor movement; to merge with the American Council on African Education; to establish closer cooperation with organizations interested in pro­moting African-American friendship and understanding.

The Board adopted the following program to be administered by a small staff composed of Africans, Afro-Americans, and other Americans.

• EDUCATION A N D CULTURAL EXCHANGE

To secure scholarships in American schools for qualified African students from all walks of life, and funds to help those unable to finance their own living expenses.

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To conduct lectures, forums, round-table discussions.

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For its first three years, the Academy was financed solely by the personal contributions of a young African, the free services of three African scholars who adminis­tered the program, and a group of about 300 Americans, who, without solicitation, had become interested in the work of the Academy, and paid a small membership fee.

The Annual Festivals are not a source of income, since they must be self-sustaining, and their proceeds used to bring the Festivals to other parts of the country.

The Academy has been unable to supply all the infor­mation requested by such people as scholars and writers seeking source material, business men interested in trade possibilities, African students wanting information on American schools, or help while detained at Ellis Island, and people interested in current news available only through direct contact with the African press, business and labor leaders.

W ith the limited funds available, it was impossible to establish the work on a permanent, growing basis. There­fore, this year the Academy is bringing its program to the public for support.

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November 19, 1946

Dr. A. B. Xuma Y M C A180 West 135th Street New York 31, N.Y.

Ity dear Doctort

Thanks so much for your air mail letter which I have just received. How happy I am to know that you are here. Will you be good enough to plan to stay with us when you come to Chicago. David is here at the present time going to Northwestern Law School. Janes is in Guam, and John is out in the state of Washington.

It is after hours, but I am rushing this note off to you to tell you how happy we are to know that you are here. Again, plan to stay with us, and let us know as soon as you find out when you can come to Chicago. We will do our visiting then.

With best wishes,

Cordially your friend,

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New York City

K. Ozuomba Mbadiwe President

New York City

Dr. A. George DalyVice-President

New York City

Dr. D. Buyabuye Mdodana Field Secretary

New York City

A . A. Austin, Treasurer New York City

Mbonu Ojike, Executive Director New York City

Dr. Akiki K . NyabongoEducational Director

New York City

Elaine R. HanleyAsst. Administrative Sec.

November 19, 1946

Dr. A. B. Xuma% Council on African A ffairs 23 West 26th Street New York, New York

Dear Dr. Xuma*B O A RD O F D IR E CTO RS

Raymond Pace Alexander Philadelphia, Pa.

Nnamdi AzikiweNigeria, West A frica

Roger N. Baldwin New York City

Mary McLeod Bethune Washington, D. C.

J. B. Blayton Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown Sedalia, North Carolina

George W . Cox, Sr.Durham, North Carolina

Maurice P. Davidson New York City

Mrs. John P. Giddings Norfolk, Virginia

Albon H. Holsey Tuskegee, Alabama

H. A. B. Jones-Quartey New York City

Dr. Balintuma Kalibala New York City

Canada Lee New York City

Dr. Alain Locke Washington, D. C.

Eleanor Roosevelt New York City

Charles Siefert New York City

Ashley L. Totten New York City

Charles Y. Trigg New York City

Dr. Walter L. Turner Birmingham, Alabama

Bishop W . J. Walls Chicago, 111.

Dr. Charles H . Wesley Wilber force, Ohio

We are extremely sorry that in the rush of printing the program of the invitations, that your name was left off.

Please forgive us for this over­sight .

We look forward anxiously to having you with us during the dinner of November 22nd, at the Hotel Capitol.

Yours truly,

) ( . 'K. Gysuomba Mbadiwe, President.

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The Bantu Welfare Trust JOHANNESBURG.Dear sir AFRICAN AND 3AL BANK LTD

Mr* P. McLaren and Mr. A. M* Goodman called on Col. Donaldson today.

Mr. McLaren Is a Director and Mr. Goodman represents a large rumber of the shareholders of the above Bank and they placed certain figures and facts before Col. Donaldson which he has asked us to record to you.

This Bank was Incorporated as a limited company and registered as a deposit receiving Institution under the provisions of the Bank­ing Act some eight months ago.

It acquired premises In Maritime House, Main street, Johannesburg, where It started business and It Intended to open branches and agen­cies In all the areas where banking business among the native popula­tion might be desirable.

The principle upon which the capital was first decided upon was to keep this as small as possible so as to avoid the need for quick profits to furnish dividends on a large capital. 9y this means, it was found possible to limit the shareholding to people who would not be urgently calling for dividends but who were prepared to stake their Investments entirely on the experiment.

Accordingly, the authorised capital Is £9000. 0. 0., of which £3900. 0. 0., has been subscribed and Issued.

Having carried on for eight months It Is now found that two miscalculations were made, namely :-

a) The original estimate of the minimum anmal expenditure necessary to give the experiment a fair chance of success Is too low.

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The Bantu Welfare Trust.JOHANNESBURG. 2. 21st November,1946.

It is now felt that about £7000. per annum Is required.b) The original estimate of the tline the experiment would take befon

any conclusive results could be expected was too short. It is now felt that probably three years is required.Ft>r this reason the experinent has been cramped and the Directors

propose at a meeting which they have convened for the purpose for the 28th of this month to present to the shareholders the case for an Increase of capital.

They have naturally had discussions in various financial circles with concerns and people who contemplate putting up the fresh capital required and they will put before their meeting the outcome of their discussions.

A suggestion from your Trust regarding the terms on which it would be prepared to furnish the required capital would be gladly placed before the meeting by Mr. McLaren and Mr. Goodman.

Perhaps the best basis on v.hich to consider the matter is one of Increase of the capital to say £20,000.It might well be that existing shareholders will feel that some

sort of recompense is their due at this stage. This might Derhaps take the form of your shares being issued at a premium of say 6/8d. in the pound.

If you were to take up 15000 shares on that basis the result would be that your 15000 £1 shares would cost £20,000., thus giving the Bank the £20,000.. it needs, while still securing you three-quarters of the capital and the control that flows therefrom. The question of the 15C0 unissued shares has not been discussed.

The present Directors are prepared to give up their places to your nominees, but you would doubtless feel that existing shareholders should have at lease one director.

The Memorandum and Articles of Association will reauire alteration because they now provide for a maximum holding for each shareholder of £100. The Registrar of Banks has already indicated that he will approve of any reasonable alteration of this provision made necessary by the introduction of fresh capital.

All the information in this letter Is, of course, confidential.Yours faithfully

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Dear Sir,The question of a Bank for Natives was lately raised

at the Trust*s last meeting on the 15th, instant*I have since got in touch with the representatives of

the African General Bank Ltd., who have already called for a general meeting of their shareholders on Thursday the 28th. November•

1 think our Trust should have a meeting before then, end I have arranged that the African General Bank will send you a letter for your Information,so that you may have cognizance of their activities and requi^irfciws, and that possibly this Trust may be able to make some proposal to them, before theirmeeting Is held,

I therefore ask you to attend a meeting of the Truston Wednesday, the 27th, at 11,30 a,m, at my office.

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Dr. A.3, XumaYoung Men's Christian Association 180 West 135th Street New York 30, N.Y.

Dear Dr. Xuma:

We have teen deeply interested in following your statements in the press with regard to the fight for African rights in the Union of South Africa. Our Association, devoted as it is to educating Americans about tne peoples and problems of other countries, as part of its program publishes a monthly bulletin for librarians and program planners based on current books. Our choice for our December-**anajiry issue on which we are now working is "Black Anger" by Wulf Sachs, to be published early in January by Little, Brown and Company. As you may know, Dr. Sachs was an English doctor practicing in Johannesburg^ He became very much interested in the psychological effects of the practice of discrimination on native Africans. He tells the story of one particular witch doctor whom he got to know intimately. It is a very moving if somewhat hair-raising uicture.

I am enclosing a copy of the current issue of our bulletin so that you can see the sort of thing that we do. You will note that Pearl Buck is the Editor and each month writes a feature article about the area which the book treats. She is planning for this particular issue to do one on the implications of "black anger" in the world today. We are wondering if it would be possible for us to receive a brief statement from you on this same subject as you see it. We would feel deeply honored and privileged to receive this from you. You will want to know that 1 am also making a similar request of Senator Basner.

Sincerely yours,

Lily Edelman PEducational Director

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N e w Y o r k 3 0 , N . Y . j\_ew YorkNovember 21, 1946

We are inviting about twenty persons in positions

of leadership and responsibility to a non-public ex­change of views with Dr. A. B. Xuma, President of the

African National Congress. This is to be an off-the-

record discussion of certain conditions in Afric* that

may not lend themselves to the frankest treatment in

public mass meetings. Also there will be a discussion

of steps which may be taken to link liberation efforts

in Africa^ the West Indies and the United States.

The timei Tuesday, November 26, 8 PM promptly.

The placet The Exhibition Room of the Schomburg Collection, 104 West 136th Street,

Please coae«

Sincerely yours,

V/» E. B* DuBois/ nL» D. R©ddick

November 23, 1946For Immediate Release

From The African Academy of Arts and Research 55 West 42nd Street, New York, N.Y.

Text of speech delivered by

Professor James P. Gifford Associate Dean, Columbia University

School of Lawat the One World Dinner of the African Academy

at the Hotel Capitol, November 22, 1946.

Mr. Baldwin, Your Excellency, President Mbadiwe, it is both a

pleasure and an honor to be present on this memorable occasion where

Ambassador Imru has received from the African Academy of Arts and Research

the Willkie Memorial Award on behalf of His Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie,

Since 1941 we have had to think so much in terms of Europe and Asia that

this award to the heroic leader of a great African nation comes as an

emphatic reminder not only of the courageous part he and his people have

played for so many years, but also of the fact that Africa is the home of

many millions of human beings who are reaching forward toward greater freedom

and security in the One World which Mr. Willkie so effectively dramatized.

As a representative of Columbia University I have been asked to answer several questions:

First, how can Africa and America best develop mutual understanding

and good will? The answer to that is, I believe, through an exchange of

individuals. Send us students, chiefly teachers and others who know conditions

in their various countries and know what needs correction. We, in turn, can

send teachers and trained observers who, looking at your countries with an

objective but sympathetic eye, may assist in pointing out things which may

be less apparent to your native scholars and administrators. Such an exchange

will involve courage in both directions. In many regions of Africa, climatic

and health conditions are extremely dangerous to Americans. I suspect that

our colder regions here in America may be dangerous to Africans accustomed to

drier or warmer atmospheres. But, in spite of the dangers, an interchange of

individuals is of the utmost importance. Statistics, languages, and customs --

all the varied information about Africa comes alive and takes on real sig­

nificance when we meet one intelligent person who has grown up among these

conditions and is fired with the spirit to understand them and to correct

those he deems harmful. Exchange, then, is the way. We, in America, have

the educational facilities to train qualified persons in almost every field

of human activity^ Therefore, send us your best to tabs what we have to

offer, and in particular, let them see the techniques in which they are

interested being applied in actual practice. Watching a visiting nurse

service in action is better than reading a dozen bookB on the subject.

In your students’ contacts with us they, in turn, will educate

America and arouse our interest, our curiosity, and our desire to know more

by making us realize that from Africa have come intelligent human beings who

love their fellow men and who are striving to bring new light into dark

places. Such men we can understand, for we all dwell in relative darkness.

The gap between the known and the unknown is huge and the more truly enlight­

ened a man is, the humbler he becomes when he sees how small is the fragment

of what he knows compared with the vastness of his ignorance. When intelli­

gent men ccme together they always meet on common ground as explorers into

the unknown, and as such explorers, they at once become equal. For honest

men are also honest in their humility, and because of their humility, they

generously give others what knowledge they have, knowing that what they give

is, in truth, but little.

The second question is, how can America help to combat the wide­

spread illiteracy in Africa? The answers to this question are various. In

many part3 of Africa the only schools are those supported by the religious

missions. Increased financial aid to these missions would seem to be essen­

tial in any campaign against illiteracy. America can also help to train

native African teachers whose primary duties will be to teach adults how to

read and write. The African Academy of Arts and Research can give widespread

publicity to the needs of Africa in its struggle to become more literate.

Such publicity should be directed principally to the colleges and universities

of America but it should also be directed to all Afro-Americans. Large

foundations like the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Guggenheim Foundations should

be approached with definite projects for research in and study of the whole

problem; but the need exists now and the importance of prompt and effective

attack is paramount.

The third question is, how can African leaders trained in American

universities go about formulating plans and policies which will enlist

America»s support in combating African illiteracy. To this third question

the answer seems clear. This can be best accomplished by carefully planned

conferences. Before such conferences are held, those invited to attend

should be fully supplied with the available facts. Individuals from various

parts of Africa studying in America should each be asked to prepare^a paper

on the problem of illiteracy in his particular area. Some one familiar with

methods for reducing illiteracy should be on hand to suggest plans for each

area. Once a series of plans is formulated, an experienced fund-raising

committee should go into operation to implement the entire project.

One matter related to all three of these questions is the importance

of establishing in Africa centers of information in every well-defined area.

Such information centers should be equipped to keep Africans in America con­

stantly informed of the latest conditions in Africa. In this way, Africans

in the United States can furnish Americans with up to date knowledge of

African conditions. Anyone who had been away from the United States for the

past year would be considerably bewildered at what he would find here today

should he suddenly return. It seems certain that the sources of information

from Africa are in no sense as full as an American could secure about the

United States from a single American newspaper. The establishment of African

information centers in Africa is, therefore, something which should, I believe,

be undertaken at once.

As to illiteracy — we have assumed that being literate is a boon

and being illiterate is a curse. That I would admit with one proviso --

that we remember that the ability to read and write is a tool and not a sub­

stitute for thought or for fresh and accurate observation. There is always

the danger that one who knows how to read may come to worship the printed

page and cease to examine himself, his fellow men, and his surroundings, and

thus fail to compare what he reads with what he actually sees going on around

him. Worse than that, reading may even pervert or destroy one's powers of

observation and the reader may imagine that things are, in truth, what his

books say they are. Yet the modem scientific attitude is a powerful correc­

tive to any tendency to worship books. The scientific method and outlook

which is the life-blood of the pure sciences has made itself felt in the fields

of law, economics, and the social sciences as well as in medicine and has

even come over into the fields of religion and ethics.

Western man, as never before, is beginning to examine himself as

objectively as he has learned to examine the world outside himself. He

believes that only by persisting in an objective examination of himself as a

highly complex organism in a complex social environment can he discover what

he can do to achieve the values which his heart tells him are worth while --

one dominating value being the sense that all men are one. Although this

sense of the unity of mankind springs from the heart, the task of bringing

about this unity will require the highest intelligence of men and women of

all races in making a complete and careful analysis of the widest and most

accurate knowledge available, all done in a firmly objective frame of mind.

Once I thought that good will was enough to overcome any evil. But now, I

believe that, although good will is essential as a motivating force, knowledge

and intelligence must supply the equipment to translate good will into

effective action. To take effective action against any social evil, wide­

spread literacy is a necessary implement but literacy must never become an

end in itself. Let me add, lest I seem somewhat pedantic, that it is perfect­

ly obvious that the African people who long for democracy and self government

cannot hope to gain their freedom while they remain illiterate. How can

anyone expect that a people who cannot read and write can be properly informed

of the political and social issues which confront them, to say nothing of the

all important matter of reading and marking a secret ballot? Literacy is the

key to freedom. Knowledge is, indeed, power.

As for methods to reduce illiteracy, that is a problem for experts.—----

We are told that Africa is 95$ illiterate. It has been estimated that within

the continent there are 700 different languages, a rather appalling number of

languages in which to be illiterate. One who is not an expert can at best

tell the little that he has heard which seems suggestive and helpful. In

Sierra Leone, for example, which contains only two million of Africa's total

population of about 160 million, Carveth Wells states that in addition to

English and Creole, or Pidgin English, there are at least sixteen native

languages; and there are probably several dialects of each of these sixteen

tongues. Only English and Arabic have ever been reduced to writing. I am

told by Mr. Sichard Caulker, who is Principal of Albert Academy in Freetown,

Sierra Leone, and is at present studying at Teachers College, Columbia

University, that the campaign against illiteracy in Sierra Leone started

some four yearB ago. Native teachers have taken the two most widely spoken

native languages, Mende and Temne, and have attempted to reduce them to

writing, using the Soman alphabet. By employing the methods used successfully

by Dr. Frank Laubach first in the Philippine Islands, and later in parts of

Africa, India, and South America, teachers are starting to teach adults to

read and write a language most adults already understand. Thus, in Sierra

Leone we find another salient of this great campaign. New worlds are opening

up for every African who crosses the great canyon which separates the illit­

erate from those who can read and write. But there is no thirst or appetite

as violent as the thirst and hunger for knowledge once a man has learned to

read. When you have taught a person to read you must give him something to

satisfy this new hunger. I am so sure that illiteracy will be conquered in

Africa that an important part of the program against illiteracy must be a

plan to provide suitable reading material.

And finally, what has Columbia to offer those who wish to undertake

this great work? First of all, we can assure you of our willingness to learn

and to t r y to understand the complexity and magnitude of your problems. What­

ever knowledge and experience we have is at your service. Properly qualified

student3 frcm Africa vill continue to be welcomed and given every assistance

in analyzing the situation in their particular areas and in finding the best

method to instruct and stimulate your various racial groups. We stand ready

to tell you of methods used in China, in Mexico, and in our own country, and

to suggest how they may be adapted to meet your needs, fere the intelligence,

knowledge, imagination, and pedagogical skills of your own students will

provide the best suggestions which can be tested against the theoretical

analysis of experienced instructors. Of our interest and good will you can

be certain and the results will soon prove whether we have been helpful.

Teaching and learning form a common venture in which it is often hard to say

who profits most, the teacher or the pupil. Particularly in an enterprise

like this, where the teacher is probably unfamiliar with the details of the

problem, it is likely that he will learn as much as the student. In the com­

bined effort to discover a solution, both the instructor and the instructed

will emerge richer in knowledge and in understanding. In this way, we shall

build permanent bridges between your countries and ours and, in trying to

help you, we shall help ourselves to a fuller realization of what it rasans

when we use the words One World.

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November 3 0 , 1946

Dr. A . B . Xuma180 West 135th StreetNew York , New York

Dear Dr. Xuma:

I wish to thank you for the s ignificant contribution you made towards the success of the One World Dinner of the A frican Academy of Arts and Research, at the Hotel C aoitol, November 22nd.

I want to assure you that your presence lent weight and dignity to the dinner.

Ycurs tru ly ,

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SERVICE PROGRESS BRO THERH OO D

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November, 1946

Dear M em ber and Friend:

W e are happy to invite you to the next big event of the A frican A cadem y of Arts and Research, a dinner to be held a t the Hotel Capitol, 51st Street and Eighth Avenue, on Friday, November 22, 1946, a t 7:30 P.M.

The dinner is intended to close the 1946-47 cam paign drive of the Academ y, and as a farewell to K. Ozuomba Mbadiwe, founder and president of the A frican Academ y, who will depart shortly for N igeria, West A frica, after having spent seven years in Am erica ; three years of which was devoted to the work of the Academy.

His Excellency, Ras H . S. Imru, Ethiopian Am bassador to the United States will receive the W illk ie Memo­rial Aw ard for and on behalf of His Majesty, Emperor H a ile Selassie, who is the recipient of this year's award. The speakers wi'll include:

DR. CHARLOTTE H A W K IN S BROW N BISHOP JAC O B W . W ALLS,Founder, president Palmer Mem oria l Institu te. Bishop A . M . E. Zion Church.

D R .A .B .X M M A , DR. W E. B. DUBOIS, , , n c . l Af • it • j i Author, scholar, founder Pan A frican Congress.Leader or 8 m illion 5outn Africans, recently arrived to

present case of his people before the U. N. Assembly B AL IN TU M A KALIBALA,Author, scholar, M em ber U. N. A rea Specialist.

PROFESSOR JAMES P. GIFFORD MRS. V IJA YA LA K SH M I PANDITAssociate Dean of the Faculty of Law, 'Columbia Uni- Chairman Indian Delegation, w ill be one of Keynote

verSity. Speakers.

Delegates to the United Nations General Assembly representing Liberia, H a iti, Egypt, India and Russia will be guests of honor and will bring greetings from their country.

Music will be supplied by: "BIG STILES and HIS O RCHESTRA.1' Noted artists will partic ipate.

You cannot a ffo rd to miss this rich program . Because of the lim ited accomodations for only 500 persons, t+ie members and friends of the Academ y are given the first opportunity to make reservations in advance. The cost of the dinner is $6.50 per person.

Dress is optional. Dancing will take place after the dinner for those interested.

Roger N . Baldwin, will serve as Master of Ceremonies for the occasion. W e invite you again to join with us in this significant a ffa ir .

Yours cordially,

Rev. James H . Robinson Hon. Maurice P. DavidsonChairman, Board of Directors Chairman, D inner Committee

Dr. A . George Daly, Mrs. James S. Watson,Treasurer, A frican Academ y Co-chairman, Dinner Committee

R. S. V. P.Enc. Return card and envelope to fac ilita te your reservation.

r \fc zwt iThe Association for the Prevention of Delinquency '

among Non-European Girlsrequests the pleasure of your company at the

ANNUAL MEETINGto be held at Talitha Home,

on Wednesday, November 21st, at 3 p.m.

M R . D A V I D M U R R A Y ,Director of Municipal Social W elfare,

has kimlly consented to address the meeting.

R.S.V.P. to:Western Native Township, The Hon. SecretaryP.O. Newville. 5, Buxton Street,Tram Stop: Newlands 31. Doornfontein.

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H m m W t T%. '“ell T. f»*wi»t#«»M». « • • * * * . « . w .w.**mnn*n. ▼.** ***>•«# *>.«. * n « .v » # « *y * .

Tt" > »n «*r.*n * * »♦>♦•*»**»**»»«*.• 7 # •

***• H , « * * . 'J.W . l»ofW*vr, «?.*. f * * „ W .V. «J*Tot>e *>»•■»,*h». t ,l , Yum*.

**>• *r *** m**+1n$r h*l* oh ttv* #th tHfewmber, 10M», an*. *'*’* eooel *1 w*«tiwir h»i # *n lA*b w m VMwS, wer*

* • y w f

***wn»w*a w it* 1r* *«■»* arees o f the♦*» ym rtmetMxMnr «**1 s *«e *»v n y f and that

■ m m *** n f t»wr«»** m r hev* iw» **»»n «1**arM .

-Il :tT T ? otated that the M .K .S .L . * u aoa eellaborat-fBeSpringbfik T*gi*ti in oreparing evidence for the Director* t#

of i>e&oblllsation on the alleged lnoffeotlveness of the present lio v srM a t M n m r t i , and that a report would bo submitted to the Directorate by the Joist S5»- oerrloss Gonaittoe. 10TSP.

A letter woo road froa the B .E .S .L . , datod 1 9 th fcovcKber,requesting the Trust to consider allocating the £l,QOo vhioh hadbeen set aside for speeiflc cases of hardship a&ongst African ex-M«iSw ** to* * rcl* th® fconoral expenses of the inveetlgat ion in the Northern Transvaal.

Th« T initoei fe lt that this sum of 2»1 ,gog had been donated for a specific purpoee and should be uaed for that purpose only.

possible to

3« tB B U M AuaiGULtumu. ^ghouls :

Two letters had been written to the Education iiepartiaent requesting information, hut no repliea had yet been reeelved.

IT *A* MUto.9: M * t this p* hold OT«r.

.' * . dh^.KfliT^iay of i m tu u^ s

"* *■*£ Jonej; re p rte d on a meeting of the eub-ooaanlttee consisting of or, Fbillips, Up. uosaka and h iaself.

Ifrg. »ob«oonsltte« reconMaended:

M £ T L t S ^ cr t* ,y b* *PP«intod,to the Trust,^ o I T S l a M l S a 41r0<stlon of ttM &«»th African Institute of

h)

oj

I m ! i?® porson should be aoro than Just a clerk, and should be able to undertake investigation* by hist se lf.

1 **% P®«5 »*• Advertised at a salary of *AOG per annum alus Ifco alnisua Oovernment oost-of-llviRg alloeence.

rj>caamendatlons_were ^ oceptea m fu ll .

5. »«• MOSAKA'B tiiUIOIumBUIH

The findings of the sub-committeet consisting of Mr. Hheinallt Jones, Mr. Mosaic* &n<5 Dr. Phillips, were presented by Mr. Hheinallt Jobes. The sub-committee agreed with the principle underlying Mr. Mosaic*'e m aortM M , namely that the trust should concentrate on large-scale projects of direct benefit to the mass of African people, particularly the eetab- iiaheent of a People's Bank and the securing of m permanent tome for A— frican Tra-des Unions.

»> ** m m

It was felt by the sub-committee that this waa an urgent aaed in the economic U f a of the African people. The Yolksbank in Pretoria had assisted thousands of poorer Europeans and an A-frioan People’s Bank could do the esse for Africans.

a study be made.tar

** Afric a

1m * «AB AftRESP TO BY THA TRUBTittS. and. . • .

It -AS AUItSSU! m t B t .. ArBAX BT.B.J. g^qia.Bfanut b« .Poro.ofaad

«fes

Mg, rounds than referred to an application by the

A^HIOAM AMp OCM&lUi. aABK. which wanted the Trust to take up new shares in order to Increase the capital of the Bank. Me had discussed the matter with Colonel Bayer, one of the Directors of the Liank, and felt that the offer by the Bank to ssll the shares to the trust at a premium wae not a reasonable business proposition. It appeared, however, that if the Trust did not taka up theee sharea and aa gain control of the Bank, they would ba taken over by the

^HQ-]tfAWYOMXMIJ& fiO W m . which had also made an application for assistance to the trust.

I f .WAS Acinic; to Inform both toe A~frloan »nd General Bank and theBttlljlng Society that the Trust wss not

groparedt ~ai tnis_j^age,_ to enter -Into .01^ .J o ^ l^ ijt j^ .

for African Trades Unions;

hl® w * essential for the politicalS *5* P«®P1*# and recommendad the acf*uiei-

* S* Trust of suitable premises for the Council of aon- Suropaaa Trades Unions. *

pointed out the difficulty of obtaining property in

1m s b o i t #08t‘ " • to make enquir-a about a suitable property at a reasonable cost.

acquire d s s U nloi

It •in ABHKED: « to w w .ilri.. IB thl. r ..p ..t

» - M N M a t H M t l h S i S U l u a U l l ~ k . e n n u lr l .a . . to t b .

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