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vakia, in Poland, in Yugoslavia, in Greece, and Norway millions of acres of land were seized.  Farmers were removed from their acres, and Germans installed.  It is needless to add that the Farm Security program would be supplanted by plantation slavery.

Since the advent of the New Deal, the phrase "social security" has rung like a pleasant bell in the ears of American Negroes.  They are enthusiastic about old-age pensions, health and unemployment insurance, and pensions for the blind.  During the economic depression, Federal and State relief payments kept many families together.  Negro youth found work and training in the CCC and the NYA.  What kind of social security could they expect under Nazi rule?

In the [[italics]] New Republic [[/italics]] for May 5, 1941, Michael Straight wrote this about Germany: "The facts are these: In September, October, and November of 1940, 85,000 blind, incurably ill or aged Germans were put to death by the Gestapo.  They were put to death as casually as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals chloroforms old and helpless dogs.  They were not killed for mercy.  They were killed because they could no longer manufacture guns in return for the food which they consumed; because the German hospitals were needed for wounded soldiers."

These were not Negroes or persecuted Jews; they[["e" torn out]] were Germans, members of what Nazis call the [[italics]] Herrenvolk [[/italics]], the master race.  Eighty-five thousand Germans, old, helpless, harmless, put to death!

There, men and women of color, is your social security under Hitler.

In 1937 the United States Government started a slum clearance program.  The object of this program was to provide decent homes for poor people.  Of the 121,500 homes now contracted for in urban districts, approximately 40,600 are or will be occupied by Negro tenants.  Thus, although Negroes are approximately one-tenth of the population, the Government is assigning to them about one-third of the new homes - because Negroes have the greater need for improved housing.  What would Hitler have done?

[[bold italics]] The doom of the churches [[/bold italics]]

A high quality of religious leadership has been one of the glories of Negro culture in the United States.  The names of such sainted men as Richard Allen, Lemuel Haynes, Peter Williams, and Josiah Bishop are written in permanence on the pages of American history.  Alike in humble wooden churches and in the magnificent brick and stone churches of our metropolitan cities, Negro clergymen steadfastly have kept alight the lanterns of the spirit.

Today Negroes own church property valued at nearly 200 million dollars.  Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian - all other denominations - enjoy complete religious freedom.  It is easy to foresee what would happen to these churches under Hitler.  He has persecuted the churches in his own Germany and in occupied countries.  He has murdered or jailed clergymen brave enough to defy him.  In the Nazi code there is not room for both Hitler and God.

A man who denies the Negro a soul will deny him a church.  And in America Hitler would have reason.  The Negro churches, before Emancipation, were hotbeds of revolt, meeting places of crusaders for abolition.  Today the churches are the strongest organizations of Negroes in the world, and churchmen are leaders in the fight for equality.  To Hitler, then, they would be dangerous - and, because dangerous, doomed.

There are more than 60 secret and fraternal organizations of national membership among Negroes in this country.  These secret societies are divided into two classes: The old-line societies such as the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, the Elks, and the benevolent secret societies such as the True Reformers, the Grand