YOUNG NEGRO
IN TRAINING FOR ARMY COMMISSION \ ‘ UNPRECEDENTED INSTANCE IN BRITAIN MR MALCOLM MacDONALD'S VIEW.. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) LONDON, February 11. What is believed to be an unprecedented instance of a negro training for an officership in the British Army is supplied by Arundel M. Moody, aged 22, son of Dr Harold A. 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 the Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, and the Secretary for the Colonies, Mr MacDonald, after which Arundel was commissioned to an 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 Govern-, ment’s policy to abolish the colour bar 4n Britain and 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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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1940, Page 6
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177YOUNG NEGRO Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1940, Page 6
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