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ed food for ^te relief of civilians.GTs Await Army's Action(Continued from Pane 1) I newspaper in the MediterraneanArea, also took- issue--with-the. the American Army. Hereafter I Italian editors responsible for the uill.eat my entire food rations, or rartoon. publishinc an editoriali dispose oHhat-i rionH-svant-other— nrr Mnnday-entillrd. We- Are-Not wise , Amused.” This stated In pari:Another said simply: 'If they •• j.'or the possible benefit of the feel that way about us. maybe it rfj,(0rs 0( Pettirosso, a few simple1 would he better if we just pulled ja(.ls m,«ht be made clear. Thou-| nut and let them light to defend sfln^s 0f colored soldiers in Italyttheir own country arr citirons of the. U.S. Many of:Stars and Stripes, service mens them arc Uvinf* in the cold anddiscomfort of the Italian front and some axe.xHUJ.tg.multid,-aad*-.. -VTTfefl. lt;. * |‘‘The colored soldier is fighting.like all other Americans against Fascism and Nazism and for athe week^Continue,rrfom Ta*eIT-Peaceful. . democratic world He'is lighting and dyinc to help hbrtSalem and in all parts of Massa- er3te the rest of llaiy. * chusetts. Mr. Douglass declared: ‘ The eolored American is not aPrciudieo Must Give Wav I stranger to shoes, nor to literacy.rcJua,cc musi *8l'e or ideas of democracv. If Italians“Not a single railroad can be don't have shoes, it is certainly found in any part of Massachu- not because any Allied soldier has: setts where a colored man is treat- them. |ed and esteemed in any other light. ‘ For a newspaper of the Social-; than that of a man and a traveler, jst party which is supposed to be j ' Prejudice has given way and fighting against, and not for. Hit-1 must give way. The fact that it is ler's ‘National Socialism.’ to print | giving away proves that this preju- such a cartoon is indeed shocking, dice iv not invincible.” In the words of Queen Vic-,In Hus respect. Maryland is at toria. we are not amused ”1least forty five vcars behind Massa- Whether American Army offi chusetts. rials will demand an apology or]I like the significance of these take other corrective measureslesser known quotations from against repetition of this type ofAbraham I.ineolir insult to colored soldiers byOimtnt frnm I inrnln Italians who they helped liberatequotes Irom Lincoln has not brcn determined at thisTo rase another's heartache is writing.fn fnrnM ohp'c nun *'
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Feb 10, 1945
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