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Lawrence, Hale Woodruff; the sculpture of Richmond Barthé and Sargent Johnson would be forbidden; the books of all Negro writers from Phyllis Wheatley to Richard Wright would be forbidden and burned.

Unity against America's foreign foes does not mean that Negroes must forego legitimate protest against discrimination in industry or the long struggle for political equality.  This is known as the right of peaceful petition.  Many people take for granted the right of peaceful petition.  Hitler wouldn't take it for granted.  President Roosevelt invited A. Philip Randolph and Walter White to the White House to discuss with him in person injustices to Negroes in war industry and Government employment.  Can you imagine Hitler doing that?  President Roosevelt created the Committee on Fair Employment Practice to enforce his order that no worker be barred from war industry because of race, creed, color, or national origin.  Can you imagine Hitler doing that?

The end of our newspapers

Under Hitler the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People would be outlawed.  The Urban League would become a criminal organization.  And the Negro press would vanish.  The doors of 300 newspapers and periodicals would be locked the day the Nazis took over.  Hitler says half-apes need no newspapers.

Hitler's record on the free press is consistent.  In Belgium, Holland, Poland, Norway, Czechoslovakia the free press was abolished.  Hundreds of journalists in occupied countries were imprisoned by the Gestapo, the German secret police.

So it does not take a fortuneteller to call the roll of the Negro journalists who would feel Hitler's lash.  The Murphy brothers of the Baltimore Afro-American, P. B. Young of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, Ira Lewis, Mrs. Robert L. Vann, P. L. Prattis, George S. Schuyler and J. A. Rogers of the Pittsburgh Courier; Mrs. R. S. Abbott, John Sengstacke, and Lucius Harper of the Chicago Defender; Chester Franklin of the Kansas City Call; Mrs. Charlotta A. Bass of the California Eagle; E. Washington Rhodes of the Philadelphia Tribune; P. M. H. Savory and C. B. Powell of the New York Amsterdam Star-News; the Rev. A. Clayton Powell, editor of the People's Voice; Roy Wilkins of the Crisis - all these would be immediate candidates for the solitary cell or the concentration camp.

Germany in this war has drawn the color line even in the prison camps.  Hans Habe, a refugee Hungarian who fought for France and was captured by the Germans, told the story of his experiences in an American magazine after escaping from his jailers.  He was quartered at Dieuze along with a large detachment of captured French Negro troops.

"We arrived at the camp in Dieuze," Habe wrote in The Nation.  "Here, as in all German prison camps, the Negroes were immediately isolated.  Barbed wire was strung around their barracks.  No white man was allowed to converse with a black.  Our own shelters were miserable enough; those of the Negroes, crowded into a narrow space, were much worse.  Our food, though insufficient, was princely in comparison with that given to the Negroes, who practically starved.  Hundreds of them fell sick but were not cared for."

Under Nazi rule there have been thousands of executions and imprisonments in unspeakable jails and concentration camps.  More than 1,700,000 Poles have been transported to Germany to work at forced labor.  At least 1,260,000 French war prisoners have been made actual slaves in Germany, while the able-bodied people of France have been compelled to labor long hours in mines and munitions plants to feed the German war machine.

Julius Streicher, editor of Der Sturmer, Hitler's anti-Semitic and anti-Negro newspaper, says: