ABSTRACT
As the Cold War deepened, members of the black community beyond the Council on African Affairs perceived that United States policies were riveting the nation to anti-communist European alliances. Black critics correctly saw in the anti-colonial trends of postwar American foreign policy the seeds of United States involvement in future colonial wars and, in the larger context of Cold War, the possibility of American-Soviet confrontations in the underdeveloped world. Estranged from the government by the great-power conflicts of the Cold War, their responses to American foreign policy were striking in the depth of their mistrustful variance from the apologies of white Establishment commentators. Of the black American organizations operating during the Cold War, the Council on African Affairs was engaged exclusively in disseminating information and organizing programs and petitions designed to win mass American support for the African anti-colonial struggles.
