Real History and the Black Population Growth of Britain your Churchill index today’s ” AR-online” FROM CHAPTER 25 OF DAVID IRVING: CHURCHILL’S WAR, VOL. II THERE WAS one problem of coalition war which neither Churchill nor his cabinet had foreseen: he had discovered that by an edict of General Marshall ten per cent of the American troops coming over were to be Black; that was far too many.
The United States were shipping tens of thousands of Negro troops into the southern British Isles which had hitherto been almost entirely white. Nor had the British received, as they had silently hoped, the upper ten per cent, the elite of those Blacks; one-third of those GI’s currently in British prisons were Black.
The cabinet was united in recognising the problems, chief among which was the over-friendly response by what they considered to be an ill-informed British public to these newcomers.
At one meeting Anthony Eden ( right ) articulated fears that American troops would be offended to see certain sections of the British people displaying ‘more effusiveness’ to the coloured people than they did.[94] While the wealthier classes kept the Negroes at the same healthy distance as did the White GIs, observed Eden, the frustrated and man-starved English country girls, lacking the same racial consciousness, saw no reason not to fraternise, and frequent affrays between American and
British troops were the result.[95] One Member of Parliament told Lord Halifax
on July 23 how difficult things were, what with the factory girls in his constituency throwing themselves at the Negro troops; it was, he added, in no way the fault of the latter.[96] Many other Members also wrote anxious letters to the war office about the arrival of Negro troops. Several ministers expressed disquiet, among them the Colonial Secretary and the Lord Chancellor. All told, there was a risk that this war might change the fair face of England for a long time to come.
Churchill had assured Sulzberger that he fully understood Eleanor Roosevelt’s well-publicised concern for the Negroes’ status; he observed that American politics were now bedevilled by race, as each side pandered to the Black vote. His motives for saying this were, it seemed, of deeper root.
Twice during their luncheon at Chequers he remarked to Sulzberger that there were depraved women who lusted sexually for Blacks — ‘It makes them feel something they have missed for years,’ he said.[97] Sulzberger told Lord Halifax on his