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to advance and that under segregated outfits there is complete equality of treatment. This argument is refuted by experience and is largely self-defeating.

a. Even today in most segregated outfits all positions of command and rank are held by white officers.

b. The segregation has resulted in much of the best of the Negro manpower not volunteering. Thus, as the records on enlistment will reveal, a considerable part of the personnel is not equal to white personnel in AGCT score and minimum educational background. The fact that there exists a difference in the average AGCT scores between the large percentage of whites and the large percentage of Negroes is a basis for saying that a disproportionate number should be found in the so-called less skilled jobs. No one in fairness could seriously deny this. But what about those Negroes that have the ability and do so quality? My views are that this is where the Army should concentrate and first develop integration. But even in the lower AGCT groups there should be an attempt to bring the groups together whenever possible. Facilities, other than those used on a limited basis, should be operated on an integrated basis. And since the problem is, in the main, one of lack of opportunity in civilian life to acquire the minimum

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