Atlanta Daily World

Warn Victory Over Axis Faces Loss

NEW YORK-Sharp protest against the "slaughter of Indonesian and Palestinian youths" by British troops was voiced to Prime Minister Clement Atlee, who is visiting America, by the NAACP.

Declaring that the victory over the Axis will have been lost "if allied nations perpetuate upon dependent peoples the same slavery Germany and Japan would have imposed," the NAACP wire said, "it is all the more inconceivable that a Labor government should be a party to the perpetuation of human slavery."

The complete telegram:

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"American citizens are perplexed at the contradiction between your statement to the Congress that the British government is working for the interests of the common man everywhere and to bring home to all people before it is too late that our civilization can only survive by the acceptance and practice in international relations and in our national life of the Christian principle we are members one of another" while at the same time British troops bomb, strafe, and otherwise slaughter Indonesians and Palestinian youths. Your government, Mr. Atlee, has sent you to America to ask for a multi-billion dollar loan to the United Kingdom.

"We ask this blunt question which we have a right to ask because that money, if loaned to your country, will come from the pockets of all Americans, white and Negro, Jews and Gentile. The question we ask is how much of the multi-billion dollar loan, if made, will be used to perpetuate empire and to suppress by force of arms or otherwise the legitimate demands of colonial peoples that they too share in the fruits of victory which Allied arms have won.

"All Americans admire the sturdy and courageous fight your country made to prevent totalitarian governments from imposing their will upon the world. But that victory will have been lost if Allied nations perpetuate upon dependent peoples the same slavery Germany and Japan would have imposed. It is all the more inconceivable that a Labor government should be a party to the perpetuation of human slavery. We beg of you to be worthy of the confidence and assistance you have come to America to ask."