Fears Of Negro Revolt Heard In United States

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30178, 9 July 1963, Page 2

Fears Of Negro Revolt Heard In United States

Fear of a negro revolution in the United States is freely discussed in New York and the situation is highly inflammable, said Miss Mary McLean yesterday on her return from a visit to the United States. “You hear people talking about it everywhere you go,” she said.

“Racial feeling does not stop between negroes and whites,” Miss McLean said. “The negroes will not tolerate Cuban refugees who have been temporarily housed on the outskirts of Harlem in New York.”

Long used to regarding the negroes as servile people, many Americans would not accept the idea that they •hould be acknowledged as equals to the white citizens.

On the other side of the question, even well-educated negroes seemed to have an •’untamed grudge.” sue said.

The situation was deteriorating all the time. The Americans were proud of their Indian population and seemed to treat them very well. But the Indians were not as ambitious as the negroes, she said. "Next in urgency to the negro question, there was a deep concern about world hunger at the United Nations, while I was there,” she said. Food Congress Miss McLean was invited to the United States to attend the World Food Congress in Washington. This conference was an international forum designed to focus attention on hunger and nutrition, food production, and broad social and economic issues related to them.

When she arrived in New York, however. Miss McLean found the Washington con-

ference was already well under way. “So I did not go to Washington. I received all the reports and attended United Nations’ discussions on them.” she said ‘‘l have brought back these reports to give publicity to the work of the congress.”

Like many other visitors who return to the United Nations after some years, Miss McLean noticed subtle changes. “Five years ago when I visited United Nations it was an alert, alive place,” she said. “Now it has become kind of respectable—one of the right places to see. “Bus loads of visitors arrived at the entrance from all parts of the United States; the people rush through the building as if it were a museum. The United Nations is not being treated by the visitors as something which is part of their own lives.”