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in 1937 or 1938 she heard DUBOIS make a speech at Osaka, Japan. She stated that at that time DUBOIS was making a speaking tour of Japan and that he was widely heralded and advertised there as an american Educator. advised that ‘the address which she heard was made to an audience which was for the most part Japanese, that DUBOIS spoke in English, and that the speech was given to the audience througn an interpreter. cameras emcee that the drift of DUBOIS' talk was to the effect of his reséntmen eing a negro in America and that she gained some impression of a desire on the part of DUBOIS to unite the yellow and black races in opposition to the white race. a. She recalled that DUBOIS said that the Japanese should be leaders in their part of the world and that he further said that "the negroes in America will extend to the Japanese in their leadership a weak but a willing hand". dvised that DUSOIS spoke at length of how the negroes in america had advanced in culture and in art and that he employed the general speaking device of flattering the Japanese on their culture and genera’ ability. SES 3-1: that DUBOIS made any such statement as that credited to h referenced letter, namely, "that in the Japanese he saw the liberation of the negroes in america and that when the time came for them to take over the United States, they would have help from the negroes in the United States."- Speaking further of DUBOIS, (stated that she understood that he was a professor probably of psychology in a negro university in Atlanta, Georgia. She further stated that after the above discussed speech, she spoke personally to DUSOIS for the purpose of greeting him and at that time he told her that he was residing in Boston or New York and was teaching in Atlanta. further stated that several Americans in addition to her were prescnt anc heard instant speech, but she was unable to furnish their names. - REFERRED UPON COMPLETION TO THE OFFICE OF ORIGIN - OK