RACIAL PROBLEMS IN U.S.
"It has often been, said that we m the United States do not have a colour problem: we have a white problem, said Captain William W. Edel, of the Chaplains' Corps of the United States navy, in a speech at the Dominion conference on Christian Order in Christchurch, reports the "Press. Captain Edel gave an outline of the progress made in the preservation of the "American Indian as a race, and of the problem cf the American negro, whose numbers were such that in some parts of the United States it would be possible for negroes to o~cvote the white population. Such factors were responsible for the intolerant attitude adopted by some Europeans in America towards the negro, and also for the social and economic disadvantages under which the latter laboured. "I am not afraid of what the. American negro may do to the white man," concluded Captain Edel. lam afraid of what the white man may do to the negro."
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 5
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