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Show I ENGLISH MAYOR HHH COLOR Declares He Would Not Change It if He Had the Opportunity to Do So. PRESENTS A PROBLEM Question Is Whether or Not King and Queen Will Consent Con-sent to Receive Him. Special Cablo to The Tribune. LONDON, Dec C It Ib a general cun-tom cun-tom for mayors of London boroughs to bo presented in conrL For thin reason evoryono is asking today whether the kins and quoon will receive the now negro mayor of Battersea, John PJchard Archer, and hlH wife. Tho king cannot put off his doclslon in this matter Ions. At any rate, Mayor Archer will havo many social duties, Including attendance at Mansion house functions of tho lord mayor of tho city of London. A remarkable feature of tho campaign which Mr. Archer won was tho fact that no contestant for tho office mentlonod Archer's color In a stump speech. But slnco tho election, Mayor Archor said in a spooch: It in a victory such as has never beon gained before. I am a man of color. Many of tho things that havo been eald about mo, howevor, aro absolutely untruo. I havo beon charged with not being of the superior supe-rior raco, and it bohoovos you now to show that you do belong to tho superior race. 1 I am tho son of a man born in tho West Indian lolands. I was bom in England, In a llttlo obscuro vlllago probably never heard of until now1 tho city of Liverpool. I am a. Lancastrian Lan-castrian bred and born. My mother well, ah was my mother. moth-er. My mother was not born in Rangoon. Ran-goon. She was not Burmese. She belonged to ono of tho grandest races on tho faco of tho earth. My mother woa an Irishwoman. So thoro is not bo much of the for-olgnor for-olgnor about me after all. They have eald I am a man of color. I am. I am proud to bo. I would not change my color If I could. Is It true that "cast Is cast and west Is west, and never tho twain shall meet?" Why. not so long ago you wero breaking your nocks to put the wlddlng ring on the finger of tho east to make an alliance with Japan. You wcro very glad to any yourselves your-selves with Japan, and you only enter Into an alliance not with lnferlors but with pcoplo you think your equal. .lust ton years ago Allan Glasyer MInn3, a full-blooded negro, was eloctcd mayor of Thetford, County Norfolk Both his parents hallod from the West Indies and ho was born and educated there. |