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...white officer commanding colored combat troops in the first World War, I have read with interest your article in the Aug. 12 issue of TIME relative to the 369th Infantry (colored) New York National Guard...
...369th was a fine outfit, and I do not wish to detract from its record, which was outstanding. I was a Company Commander in the 371st Infantry made up of drafted Negroes from the South. I respectfully challenge your statement that: "With one exception their battlefield record [negro combat units] was not so good. Exception was Harlem's 369th...
...371st Infantry (colored), the 372nd Infantry (colored) and the 333rd French Infantry (white) with French Artillery combat trains, etc., made up the 15 7th French Division, commanded by General Goybet. I quote from a message sent by him on Oct. 1, 1918 to the Colonels of the American Regiments in his Division...
...Combat Hilter...
...attitude that we ought to steel ourselves. We must not look upon the war as a "sea at the end of time," as a today for which there is no tomorrow. If we do, we ourselves and the nation as a whole become psychologically unprepared both for the combat and for the peace and social reconstruction which must be made to follow it. Whatever the economic and political reasons driving us to war, if to war we go, the foremost consideration will be, for many, the belief that this is a struggle to continue civilization and humanistic values...