The New York Age · 3 April 1948

CP-1948-092

Palestine and Mr. Truman

Transcribed from the clipping

“WHEN President Harry Truman announced his civil rights program to the nation, THE NEW YORK AGE commended the President highly for his stand on an important issue. The commendation by this paper for Mr. Truman’s pronouncement was made, not because we happen to be a Negro newspaper, but because we are a patriotic, American organization and we automatically stand up and cheer for anything which we sincerely feel is good for America. Mr. Truman has made another pronouncement. He has made a pronouncement on Palestine. The Truman statement on civil rights was a confirmation and reaffirmation of faith in the basic principles of the Constitution and human decency. The Truman statement on Palestine is a denial and betrayal not only of a people, but also of a promise and of justice itself. It was not good for America. It was not good for the world.”

Context added by this archive

An unsigned editorial in a Black weekly, setting Truman’s civil rights program beside his retreat from partition and refusing to separate them. The paper says exactly why it is making the comparison, and exactly why it is not making it as a Negro newspaper.

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"Palestine and Mr. Truman," The New York Age, 3 April 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-092. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-092

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