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found in recent figures on reenlistment by Negroes who have already served.  In number and in proportion these reenlistments are breaking all records.  They are proportionately higher for Negroes than for whites.  All Negro reenlistments in the Army--and this is a very significant figure--are approximately 75% of all Negro reenlistments in the entire National Military Establishment.  Three times as many Negro reenlistments in the Army as the other two services combined.

Reenlistment figures are perhaps the best known index not only of morale but of general satisfaction with military service.  And the Army today is reenlisting more soldiers -- white and Negro -- than any military service of any nation at any time of peace has ever enlisted.  As to the Negro reenlistees, I believe that their proven satisfaction with the Army is due in considerable part to our conscientious and successful effort to provide them with equality of opportunity and treatment.

As compared with this fine record of the Regular Army, I would like to cite the recent experience of the New Jersey National Guard, which under the Constitution of that State has become a completely integrated organization and Federally recognized as such by me.

There are approximately 11,000 members of the