Negro Trains For Commission In British Army
(Received 2.30 p.m.)' LONDON, February 11. What is believed to be an unpre- j cedented incident of a negro training for a commission in the British Army is supplied by Arundel M. Moody, 22, son of Dr. Harold A. Moody, president of the League of Coloured People. The father states that several African students desired to enter the Army and he took up the matter with Mr Chamberlain and the Colonial Secretary (Mr Malcolm MacDonald). Later, Arundel was posted to an officers’ training corps. Mr MacDonald announced that people not of pure European descent might be commissioned as an emergency measure. Dr. Moody adds: “Mr MacDonald said that it would be the Government’s policy to abolish the colour ban l'n Britain and overseas. “He promised to consider instructing colonial governors to give preference to their nationals in local appointments over Europeans if nationals were as well qualified.’’
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Northern Advocate, 12 February 1940, Page 5
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