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The Swedish scholar, Myrdal, warned:
The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal. It is tremendously publicized, and democratic America will continue to publicize it itself. For the colored peoples all over the world whose rising influence, is axiomatic, this scandal is salt in their wounds. In all white nations which. . .have not been inculcated with race prejudice, the color of the victim does not provide any excuse for white solidarity. That this is so in Russia is well known and advertised. 47
47 Myrdal, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 1020.
Walter White wrote prophetically in 1945:
Many and perhaps all of the Balkan States may through choice or necessity ally themselves with Russia . . . It is probable and perhaps certain that the people of India, China, Burma, Malaya, and other parts of the Pacific may also move into the Russian orbit as the lesser of two dangers.
As for the united States, the storm signals are unmistakable. She can choose between a policy of appeasement of bigots--which course she gives every indication now of following--and thus court disaster. Or she can live up to her ideals and thereby both save herself and help to avert an early and more disastrous resumption of war.48
48 Walter White, A Rising Wind (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1845), p. 155.
When a good will tour of officers from the Latin American Nations passed through Montgomery, staff officers from Maxwell Field arranged a party at the Jefferson Davis Hotel and arranged for girls from Huntingdon College to help entertain. The girls were particularly attracted to the officers of the Haitian Army, who were dark andhandsome. The author was informed by a member of the group that the Haitians had been most popular with the girls all over the country. They spoke with a beautiful French accent and were accomplished dancers.
Haitian pilots were also in training at Tuskegee. They were also attractive fellows and very good-natured. They were sent to Tuskegee