Malcolm X Suggests King Accepted Prize Too Early

"I would refuse to follow a general who accepted a peace prize before the battle was won," Malcolm X told nearly 1000 people attending the Law School Forum in Sanders Theatre last night.

In an apparent reference to the Rev. Martin Luther King. Malcolm declared "As a leader, I would refuse to accept a prize for peace while my people had no peace."

Malcolm declined, however, to mention King by name. In response to a question from the audience following his prepared speech, Malcolm said he "wasn't dealing in any particular personalities. I have no comment on my good friend Dr. King."

But Malcolm lashed out at advocacy of nonviolence as a "trick," charging, "It is Inhuman sub human--for a man to let a dog bite him or to let a man club him and not fight back."

"We feel," said the head of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, that civil rights workers should be protected by "units qualified and equipped to protect them under all circumstances."

"You can't have peace until you've ready to defend it," he said.

Turning to American participation in the Congo, Malcolm charged the U.S. with "Criminal" actions in defense of a militarily untenable position.

Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe is "the worst African there is," Malcolm declared, "and every African knows it." Congolese troops have never won a victory for Tshombe, said Malcolm, because they don't support him.

"The only way to keep Tshombe in power is to keep sending in white troops," said Malcolm, but the Congo is "too big and too hot" for the whites to win.

Meanwhile, he continued, American trained pilots are bombing defenseless vilages, but the American people are "dumb enough" to believe that the U.S. is on a mission of mercy in the Congo.

Repeating several times the line that give rise to his split with Elijah Muhammed--"the chickens are going to come back to roost"--Malcolm started that the U.S. is already facing a new hostitity from African nations that have not been fooled by the "shrowd" reporting of the American press.