RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN UNITED NATIONS
Received Friday, 8.40 p.m. NEW YORIv, July 24. A mass meeting of more than 1001 members of the United Nations Secre tariat deeided to demand the can cellation of the rental agreements be ween the United Nations -and fhe Metropolitan an'd New' Yor.k Xnfe In'sprance Companies 'the. grou'nd tftSat. they involve a threat of racial dis-; erimination. The contracts involve 91 2 apartments in housing projects at Manhattan and Queen's County, and contain tenant selection clauses which tlie , two firnis insisted on retaining. The meeting declared that the United Nations should dissociate itself com pletely from the projects which threaten the spirit or letter of the United Nations Charter, and suggesteo that tlie General Assembly take steps to ensure that the Seeretariat could live in.the headquarters area withoul being subjected to discriminatory practiees. This proposal is interpreted as a bid to the assembly to study tlie possibility of establishing speeial and separate housing for the United Nations' staft' The meeting applauded Edward Law son, an American negro emploved ir the Hunian Rights Division, when he declared: " We cannot prosecute tht struggle for democracy eac.h day from ten to six and condone racialism' by living in our separate ghettoes aftei vvorking hours. "
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 July 1947, Page 5
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