Dangerous Bill & Lem

Jubilant Negro dailies throughout the U. S. hailed last week the "race justice" of Soviet Russia's courts. In Moscow two white U. S. workmen, Lemuel ("Lem") Lewis of Detroit and William ("Bill") Brown of Toledo, had just been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for assaulting a Negro waiter in the mess hall of a Soviet factory--this crime being known to Red jurists as "racial Chauvinism."

Vainly the accused pleaded that they had committed only "simple assault and battery." The court held that their motive was "race hatred," that they would not have assaulted the waiter had he been white.

But boisterous Bill & Lem were not clapped into a Moscow gaol last week. Higher Soviet authorities, closely attuned to U. S. white opinion, suspended the sentence of the lower court, ordered Bill & Lem deported, "because they are persons imbued with the spirit of race prejudice and therefore dangerous, menacing persons to have in Russia."

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