NEGROES AS OFFICERS
BRITISH POLICY
EMERGENCY MEASURE
(Received February 12, 1.45 p.m.)
LONDON, February 11,
What is believed to be an unprecedented instance of a negro training for officership in the British Army is supplied in the case of Arundel M. Moody, the 22-year-old son of Dr. Harold A. Moody, president of the League of Coloured Peoples.
Dr. Moody states that several African students desired to enter the Army, for which purpose he took up the matter with the Prime Minister and the Colonial Secretary, after which Arundel was commissioned to the Officers' Training Corps, Mr. MacDonald announcing that people not of pure European descent might be commissioned as an emergency measure. Dr. Moody adds: "Mr. Mac Donald said it would be the Government's policy to abolish the colour bar in Britain and overseas, and he promised to consider instructing colonial governors to give preference to their nationals in local appointments over Europeans if nationals were well qualified.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 36, 12 February 1940, Page 8
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