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International President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ( Randolph ) to President Eisenhower

his own country and from the fulfillment of his responsibilities to his own people is a challenge to our democratic faith and our moral principles, both Christian and humanitarian. 10. That the pledged word of Great Britain to grant independence to Nigeria in 1956 be kept and that the apparent policy of pakistanization of Nigeria, sometimes called the India of West Africa, because of incidental internal conflicts of recent occurrence in Kano between Moslems of the North with Christians and pagans of the South, be not used as rationalization for the alleged incapacity for self-rule by Africans,…