 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES: Army's black quota file.(News)
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The Birmingham Post (England)
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January 4, 2005
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For almost two decades the Army secretly recorded all recruits with 'Asiatic or Negroid features' as part of a policy of 'quota restrictions' on non-whites.
Papers reveal that Army medical officers were instructed to make a note of all new recruits with non-North European facial features.
It appears from the documents that the data was used to limit the numbers of ethnic minority troops - designated 'D factor' personnel by the Army - serving in any one unit. T...