a Black officer entered a full dining-room, the following incendent occured:

The smiling landlady hastened to seat the Black officer at a table with White American officers. The White officers, immediately, began to show their displeasure. A French officer at a neighboring table with French officers quietly glanced at the astonished landlady. Not a word was said, no one in the dining-room took any apparent notice of the glance. The Black officer was soon seated with the courteous Frenchmen.

The Negro soldiers experienced the deliberate and devilish persecution from their countrymen and the taste of real democracy and world culture from the French. The experience was revolutionizing. The Black soldiers began to hate prejudice and discrimination as they had never hated it before. They began to realize its' eternal meaning and complications. The desire to escape from their race and country was absent, however.