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    "ocrText": "interview\nMay 4, 1948.\nHonorable Luther W. Youngdahl,\nGovernor of Minnesota,\nSt. Paul, Minnesota.\nDear Governor Youngdahl:\nI am now authorised to reply to your letter of March\n6, 1948, directed to the Secretary of Defense, relating to\nNegroes in the National Guard of Minnesota.\nIn accordance with a report of competent and experienced\nofficers, the ar Department on (April 27, 1946, issued rogula-\ntions which among other things required (subject to certain\nexceptions) that when Negroes are employed in Aymy unita below\nthe battalion, they will be in separate rganizations.\nSince I begame Secretary of the Aray this natter has\nagain beon carefully considered by the Military Staff of this\nDepartment both in connection with the Regular Anny troops\nand the Federally recognized civilian componente. It is the\nopinion of the Staff - with which I conour -- that in the\ninterest of national defense the policy of April 27, 1946,\nshould be unifornly applied throughout the Fedoral force of\nthe\nTROWAN\nfill\nis\nIn the case or Now Jorsoy the people by direct vote\nhad prohibited in their Constitution any segrogation in the\n48 D\nmilitia. It followed that noither legisiative nor exegutive\naction in that State could have met existing Federal require-\nmonte in this matter, and unless an exception had been made,\nthere could have been no Federally recognized National Quard\nin New Jersey. ão far as I know this situation doos not\narise in any other State.\nDecause of your interest in this natter, I have reforred\nyour request to the Committee on National Guard Folicy under\nSection V of the National Defense Act, which Act provides that\npolicies affecting the organization, distribution and training\nof the National Guard be referred to such Committee for con-\nsideration.\nI expect to receivo the recomsendations of this Committeo\nwithin the noxt fow weeks and, if these recosmendations differ\nfrom the viowa horetoforo taken by the Staff and myself, the"
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