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men felt that the colored soldier "performed very well" in combat, and (2) that 94 per cent of the officers and 100 per cent of the enlisted men believed that white and colored men had gotten along together very well.

This experiment proved conclusively that the Negroes are courageous, intelligent fighters. It also proved that colored and white soldiers can get along perfectly well together when integrated in the same units. There was not one racial incident in any of the mixed combat divisions. This experiment also demonstrated the high morale and strong incentive to fight in Negroes who were fighting for democracy in a democratically run Army.

Yet, in spite of the strikingly good results of the experiment, the Army abandoned the policy of integration as soon as its need for replacement had diminished.

If our troops were supposed to serve as emissaries of democratic brotherhood overseas, they were not always qualified for their task. Both English and Italians had already received bad reports of Negroes from the white American servicemen. In spite of this advance publicity, Negroes got along well with the population in all foreign lands. This was so true in England that there was a protest on behalf of the