ABSTRACT
The cancerous Negro situation in our country gives fodder to enemy propaganda and makes our ideals stick like dry bread in the throat. When John Foster Dulles wondered aloud among his US colleagues in the delegation whether the human rights and nondiscrimination provisions might not create difficulties for "the Negro problem in the South,” he was told that the inclusion of a domestic jurisdiction provision would preclude this possibility. "In the preliminary peace talks at Dumbarton Oaks," said one commentator, "only one colored group participated, the Chinese, and the equality and basic problems of Negroes and colonial colored people were not on the agenda. Others from colonial possessions joined together in asserting that it "was essential that the Conference get away from all ideas of racial superiority and racial inferiority if peace were to be achieved." Many questions about the politics and diplomacy of racial discrimination burst upon the world in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
