NEW YORK, February 16 ALCOLM X described the bombing of his home to about 700 people at a Harlem meeting last night sponsored by the Organisation of Afro-American Unity. He said the bombing early on February 14 had been ordered by Black Muslim leader - Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm X charged that the attackers obviously knew the layout of his home, and had attempted to seal off both the front and the rear exits to the house with fire bombs. He said the lives of his wife and children and his own had been saved because the bomb meant to seal off the rear exit, glanced off the window — instead of breaking through — and burned harmlessly outside. The attackers broke the window of the living room and succeeded in throwing a fire bomb inside, he said. The black nationalist leader described a series of attempted attacks on him by the Black Muslims in the past weeks: an attempt to jump him in front of his home on January 22; an automobile chase on Los Angeles expressways at 80 miles an hour, and two attempts to attack him — despite the presence of police — when he appeared at television broadcasts in Chicago and New York. He charged that the police knew of the plans of the Black Muslims to attack him — since they had thoroughly infiltrated the Black Muslim movement — but had done nothing to prevent the attacks. This was despite the fact that Raymond Sharrieff, supreme captain of the Fruit of Islam, the Black Muslim defense guard, had threatened him in a public telegram. The former follower of Elijah Muhammad declared that the Black Muslims had become “a criminal organisation —- in the hands of a man who’s senile.” He said he knew “how bad it makes me look” to attack an organisation he had been so closely connected with. But, he added, “I’m going to expose them — let the chips fall where they may.” Malcolm X went on to accuse the Black Muslims of having friendly relations with the Ku Klux Klan and Lincoln Rockwell’s Nazis, and of
getting money from the same sources which support those racist organisations, He described a meeting in Georgia he attended in December, 1960, between the Black Muslims and the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan. At this meeting there were negotiations to give the Black Muslims a countysized tract of land to be used by them as a showcase for their programme of a separate nation. After this meeting, he said, he was never permitted to return to the South while he was in the Black Muslim organisation — and so he had no direct knowledge of the further relations between the organisations. He pointed out, however, that from then on the Black Muslims were allowed to organise in the South without interference from the Klan. He asserted that Jeremiah X, head of the Black Muslims in the South, attended Klan rallies and that Muhammad Speaks, the Black Muslim newspaper, refrained from attacking the Klan or American Nazi Party leader Rockwell. Malcolm X declared that Rockwell corresponded regularly with Elijah Muhammad and was permitted to attend Black Muslim meetings despite the resentment of many Black Muslims about this. Malcolm X had declared at an earlier meeting of the OAAU. that, had it been up to him, the Klan would have been run out of the country by the Black Muslims—who, he said, were capable of doing so. Since his break with the Muslims, the black nationalist leader has denounced both the Klan and Rockwell. Malcolm X charged that the Black Muslims had been ordered to attack any of their members who defected to Malcolm. He cited a series of beating and shootings that had taken place recently. The speaker described his recent trip to Alabama. He spoke at Tuskegee Institute. Afterwards students there in SNCC had insisted he go with them to Selma. In Selma, he said, Martin Luther King’s spokesman had not wanted him to address the children, but the children and SNCC students insisted that he speak. “I promised them I'll be back —we'll be back,” he said. At a press conference in Selma,
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