The Racial Question Again To the Editor of the "Noatit-Cuina Datty News"
Siz;—Millions of Britons joined the last World War inspired by the belief that by gaining victory their posseely would thereby onlay peace ana My father was killed in action in the war, and due to his death my mother experienced a dificult, and exacting time in rearing her family.
From early childhood T was imbued with a strict sense of loyally to my country, and when war was declared In the early part of September, 1939, Pre I offered my services hoping that T might be honoured by being allowed "do my bit"
feel, therefore, a true and pafriotie Briton at heart—but, by the grace of God, T am not of pure Buro-can origin. ' Being of mixed blood, Tam not eligible for the advertised vacancy which appears in your ¢s-teemed paper, as I notice that the applicant must be of pure British na-tonality.
The quality of race is therefore to be the yardstick by which the candidate is measured, and although a Eurasian may have @ good education, thoroughly efficient and has a few years of business experience to his Sredit, he is precluded from aplying for the position of account of so-called "racial inferiority."
At the present time when Britons—irrespective of colour—are anxious to see the war through to a successful conclusion and are willing to sacrifice their lives for King and Country, the Advertisement under reference—to say the least—savours of bad taste, When Herr Hitler predthes about the mythical "Aryan race" we treat matter ludicrously, and when he persecutes the Jews we abhor the maltreatment, but are we startled, or do we condemn the fact when racial discrimination is actually practised among Britons themselves Tam. glad to learn, however, that there is no racial distinction in the Royal Air Force, as Captain H. H. Balfour, the Under-Secretary of State for Air, declared quite plainly in the House of Commons as recently as on April 24, that British subjects of non-European descent were considered on their merits for service in the RAF. and several have been accepted since P the outbreak of the war.
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