Study in Black & White

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 22

Study in Black & White

PRINCESS of the Egyptian Royal Family and a coloured diplomat were the principal figures in an incident due to the decision of

managers of select Paris restaurants and fashionable places of amusement to bar coloured visitors to please the susceptibilities of American customers. Many incidents, which often developed into fights, have taken place in restaurants, notably in Montmartre night resorts. Police Ignored American visitors have objected to a coloured man or woman sitting at a table next to them. Negroes of French citizenship often find themselves turned out of restaurants solely because their presence might displease Americans. The Prefect of Police insisted, on I the ban being withdrawn, but appar- ! ently with no effect. I The other evening, M. Stephen

Alexis, Charge d’ Affaires at Brus ß ®*? for Haiti, and that country s Consu General at Antwerp, took P na n „ Mansour Daoud, a relative of k - Fuad, to dinner in a Montparnass restaurant which is frequented foreign artists. . .. After dinner they thought • would go into the ballroom. .j man at the door told them they c not enter. “I have instructions from the ager,” he said, “not to permit coloured person to come in. H* for the convenience' of our Amer clientele.” .» The diplomat and the princess away. , % M. Stephen Alexis then "UU formal letter of protest to M- Bit Minister for Foreign Affairs, ‘ his attention to the fact that S' , includes in her colonies a bun million coloured citizens. ■ t 0 An investigation is being made " the incident. Paris newepapers e protesting bitterly against the ah* of American visitors.