After a July order banning discrimination between white and Negro troops on all its posts, the Army hoped that things would cool off. But by last week one phase of the problem of how to treat Negro soldiers was hot and growing hotter.
The newest flare-up began last month when the well-meaning Army decided to set up separate redistribution centers in Harlem and Chicago's down-at-the-heel South Side for Negro troops of the Army Ground Forces (TIME, Oct. 2). Although they are in overcrowded sections and only equipped to the lower-drummer-trade standard, the Hotels Pershing and Theresa, the Army wishfully reasoned, would...
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