Atlanta Daily World

Nazism,
Southland
Practices
Compared

By ERNEST E. JOHNSON

WASHINGTON-(ANP)- An official document made public last Wednesday night by the state department in which Nazi principles and practices are more clearly delineated, makes possible a closer identity of these same principles and practices and the methods employed in America's own southland with regard to Negroes.

The document is the directive given to Gen. Eisenhower as commander in chief of the United States forces of occupation in the military zone governed by American soldiers. The 18-page statement was handed to Eisenhower with the understanding that he would pursue the stated policies in the area under his jurisdiction, and would also press for the adoption of similar policies in the zones controlled by other allied nations through the Allied Control council.

PROVISIONS DISCUSSED

Many of the provisions of the document were the subject of discussions during the "big three" talks at Potsdam and subsequently became the basis of general agreement and incorporated in the Potsdam communique. One of these was the directive regarding racial doctrines. In the Eisenhower instructions it reads as follows:

"The laws purporting to establish the political structure of national socialism and the basis of the Hitler regime and all laws, decrees and regulations which establish discrimination on grounds of race, nationality, creed or political opinions should be abrogated by the control council. You will render them inoperative in your zone."

POTSDAM SIMILAR

The Potsdam communique carried substantially the same thing. However, the directive to Eisenhower went further in explaining just what his responsibilities were to be in this respect. It is in an excerpt from this added data that the similarity is readily found between the one-party system that has existed in Germany under Hitler and the virtual one-party system as now exists in the south. It reads:

"Persons are to be treated as more than nominal participants in (Nazi) party activities and as active supporters of Nazism or militarism when they have either held office or otherwise been active at any level from local to national in the party and its subordinate organizations which further militaristic doctrines; (2) authorized or participated affirmatively in any nazi crimes, racial persecutions or discriminations; (3) been avowed believers in any nazism or racial and militaristic creeds or (4) voluntarily given substantial moral or material support, political assistance of any kind to the Nazi party or nazi officials and leaders. No such persons shall be retained in any the categories of employment listed above because of administrative necessity, convenience or expediency".

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