Negro divisions of Presidential campaign committees are always part of the show, like bunting, buttons, parades. They also have some practical nuisance value. Another thing they can be used for became evident last week.
Last week the Colored Division of the Democratic National Committee in New York City issued a five-page mimeographed document which 1) underlined Wendell Willkie's German ancestry, 2) quoted Adolf Hitler as saying: "Negroes are lower than apes."
Willkie, said the statement, was nominated "by the Hitler formula" with the calculating support of Isolationist Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, anti-New Deal Congressman Charles Halleck of Indiana, and Harold Stassen, "the...
