ROBERT. WILLIAMS , MALGOM Xx PRAISE
CHINA'S TEST. OF BOMB
Robert. Williams, the militant American Negro leader living in- political exile in Cuba, recently praised the People's Republic of China for conducting a successful test of a nuclear weapon. He offered his comments upon reaching Canton November 4 during a trip to China. In the visitor's book at a local museum he wrote:
"IT have been greatly inspired by my visit to the Memorial Hall at the old site of the Peasant Movement Institute directed by Comrade Mao Tse-tung. It offers further evidence of the incinvibil-~ ity of the Chinese People's ‘great march toward complete liberation and human dignity. eka eee ae
"Tt is a great honor for me, an Afro-American freedom fighter from racist America, to visit a memorial highly indicative of a brutally oppressed people who have made a long march from the Canton Institute to the atomic bomb: of liberation.” |
Another well-known American Negro leader, Malcom X, expressed similar sentiments in an interview granted | the Hsinhua News Agency November 5 while visiting Accra, .
China's successful explosion of an atomic bomb, he said, was “the greatest thing that has. ‘ever happened in the twentieth century to the black people."
He said that it neipe® not only the cause of the Afro-ameri-
cans but the: cause of all peoples of the world: ftehting against | the imperialists, or
-‘.. He praised the Chinese government's proposal for a world summit conference to discuss the complete prohibition and destruc- : tion of nuclear weapons.
Hsinhua reported him as saying that the U.S. imperialists “ would never loosen their grip on the 22,000,000 American Negroes before. the peoples of Asia and Africa cast off the yoke of imperialism and became strong. "Bearing this in mind, we therefore appre~ | ciate the great strides that the Chinese people have made towards true independence and the unlimited contribution they are making to help the oppressed peoples in other parts of the world to throw off the chains of imperialism."
He called the U.S. presidential election a "farce," which had hardly any..significance for the American Negroes, "Both candidates do not seek the interests.of ‘the Afro-Americans,"
The only difference between Johnsen ‘and Goldwater, he said, is “that while the one uses the method ofa wolf, the other employs the approach of a fox. But both of them-are trying to eat us. UPs: re
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' Johnson tried to represent himself as "peace~loving," but he ordered direct intervention in the Congo, bore responsibility for the massacre of the South Vietnamese people and for atrocities in other parts of the world,
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