The highest ranking Negro officer in the U.S. Army, Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, said recently: "I am hoping to live long enough to see the time when we will have no hyphenated Americans . . . no Afro-Americans, no Negro-Americans . . . [when] all men can live together in peace and harmony."
In the U.S. last week white and black Americans lived together in the Army. But it was not an unhyphenated life. The deep-seated racial prejudices of U.S. citizens could not be put aside by the brotherhood of arms and...
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