Colour Problem
IN the day I heard "In Memoriam," by William Grant Still, in a New York Philharmonic Orchestra programme from 4YO, I had by me two American magazines, both of which contained material bearing on the subject of this workits sub-title being "Coloured Soldiers Who Died for Democracy." Time (July 3, 1944) said that, although the American Army officially accepted "no doctrine of racial superiority or inferiority," and although an Army directive has told officers that "all people seem endowed with whatever it takes to fight a good war, if they want to and have learned how"; nevertheless the Negro soldier, still finding himself segregated in the Army as in civil life, and "called upon to fight and on occasion to die for a democracy he is not fully allowed to enjoy, is still an unhappy and embittered man." The New Yorker (January 29, 1944) said "Mr. Still’s composition, one of the most successful works on war themes commissioned by the League of Composers, was an effective presentation of a mood expressed by a grave and charming melody that was like a spiritual." That is just exactly what it was, neither more nor less, but perhaps such tributes do play their part in awakening public conscience to a problem which, thank Heaven, is not ours to solve, bie
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 9
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219Colour Problem New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 9
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