NEGROES WHO BACK RHODESIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100490002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 22, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By CARL T. ROWAN
; 7X,T'a TASHINGTON: America's two
busiest Negro apologists for
, racial segregation and colonialism are
? at it again. And that means more
, headaches for the State Department
and trouble in Africa for the .United
States and Great
Britain.
? Max Yergan, a
former Communist
turned super-patriot,
and George Schuyler,
. a writer for the Pitts-
burgh Courier, have
? popped up as front
men for a new right-
wing organization de-
signed I', "save" Africa
, from ( nmunism.
? They have begun by
trying to preserve the segregationist,
' breakaway regime of Ian Smith. in ?
Rhodesia.
? The group, the "Am_erican:African
. Affairs Assn.," says in its "Money.
? Pitch" being mailed all osier the coun-
try, that it will fight the "ignorance,
cupidity and mischievous Intent of
those individuals, institutions, peri-
odicals and organizations which are in
effective control of American 'policies
toward Africa."
? Even a cursory check shows, host/-
ever, that the leaders of the group
are primarily interested in defending
South African apartheid and Rhode- .
, sian racism?and in protecting the
United States from the incursions of
? . the 20th Century. ;
. Yergan, the association's co-chair-'
man, Rep. John Ashbrook (R.-Ohio) '
? and Ralph de Toledano, a former.
. leftist who has made anti-communism
a profession, recently returned from
a "fact-finding" mission to Rhodesia.
They issued a 12-page report that
...warns, in so many breathless words,
that the survival, of Western civiliza-
tion depends on the survival of Smith's
outlaw regime.
Ashbrook, chairman of ? the "fact-
. finding group,".* was in .Rhodesia for
; three' days, his office reports He con- '
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eluded that Smith's government com-
mands "the respect of a preponderance
of the Africans."
'? That is like spending three days s
the guest of Alabama officials and di
covering that a preponderance of Ala-
bama Negroes' just love Gov. George
'Wallace.
Last year, by the way, Ashbrook
voted against the voting rights bill,
Medicare, aid to schools, foreign aid, ?
urban affairs, the poverty program
and virtually every other liberal or
moderate proposal to come before
Congress.
A few years ago, Yergan and
Schuyler were used to give a little
"color" to another right-wing lobby ?
called the "Katanga Freedom Fight-
ers." This group tried, almost success-.
' fully, to force the U. S. Government
to acquiesce in an effort by Moise
.
Tshombe to steal mineral-rich Ka-
tanga away from the rest of The Congo. ,
? Co-chairman -with Yergan is Wil-
Ham A. Rusher, publisher of the Na-
tional Review and a long-time, king-
maker in right-wing circles. Rusher ?
was the founder of the movement for
Barry Goldwater but bowed out when
it was taken over by what he thought
were "Arizona hicks."
The new Rusher-Yergan group is
dangerous for two reasons:
o Some Africans may be naive
enough to believe that this collection
of fear-merchants is really representa-
? tive of the United States..
o It is just vocal and troublesome
enough that it might make an already
? timid State Department even more
tremulous in dealing with the vital
? problems of Rhodesia and the rest of
Africa.
. The group may be correct when it i
".says that "communism and free men
? are locked in a deadly struggle" in
Africa. But the surest way to doom
free men to defeat is for the United .
' States to base its policies on the "fact-
finding" or the 'views of men who
obviously think, the ?Renaissance was
subversive. ? ? ? *:..
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