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May 4, 1948.
Honorable James C. Sharmon,
Governor of Connecticut,
TROMAN
Hartford, Connecticut.
R. NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
SERVICE
u
Dear Governor Sharnon:
SCOVEBUNED
I am now authorized to reply to Governor MeConaughy's
telegram of February 9, 1948, directed to the President,
relating to Negroes in the National Guard of Connecticut.
In accordance with a report of competent and exper-
lenced officers, the War Department on April 27, 1946, issued
regulations which among other things required (subject to
certain exceptions) that when Negross are employed in Army
units below the battalion, they will be in separate organiza-
tions.
Since I became Secretary of the Army this matter has
again been carefully considered by the Military Staff of this
Department both in connection with the Regular Army troopa
and the Federally recognized civilian components. It is the
opinion of the Staff -- with which I conour -- that in the
interest of national defense the policy of April 27, 1946,
should be uniforaly applied throughout the Federal force of
the Army.
In the case of New Jersey the people by direct vote
had prohibited in their Constitution any segregation in the
militia. It followed that neither legislative nor executive
action in that State could have met existing Federal require-
ments in this matter, and unless an exception had been made,
there could have been no Federally recognized National Guard
in New Jersey. So far as I know this situation does not arise
in any other State.
Because of your interest in this matter, I have referred
your request to the Committee on National Guard Policy under
Section V of the National Defense Act, which Act provides that
policies affecting the organization, distribution and training
of the National Quard be referred to such Committes for con-
sideration.
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