NO COLOUR BAR
NEGRO FOR BRITISH ARMY TRAINING AS AN OFFICER PROMIVE BY MINISTER (United Press Assn.—-Elec. Tel. (Received Feb. 12. 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 11 A believedly unprecedented instance of negro training for officership in the British Army is supplied by Mr Arundel M. Moody, aged 22 years, son of Dr. Harold A. Moody, Moody, president of the League of Coloured Peoples. The father states that several African students desired to enter the Army, as a result of which he took the matter up with Mr Chamberlain and Mr Malcolm Macdonald, after which Mr 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.
The father adds that Mr Macdonald said it would be the Government’s policy to abolish the colour bar in Britain overseas.
He promised to consider instructing Colonial Governors to give preference to their nationals in local appointments over Europeans if the nationals were well qualified.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21036, 12 February 1940, Page 8
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