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or = CONFI RTIAL The "Daily Worker" dated April 16, 1951, page 2, column 1, carried an article entitled "Set Up National Group to Defend Dr. DU BOIS". This article states that a National Committee for Defense of Doctor W.E.B. DU BOIS and his associates of the former Peace Information Center was formed yesterday in New York, at the organizing meeting of the committee, Doctor DU BOIS stated: "The defendants deny that peace is a foreign idea; but they gladly admit that they gathered and publicized ideas and news of action for peace from everywhere they could obtain them. They assert that any attempt to curtail such free interchange of thought, opinion and lmowledge of fact the world over is clearly an interference with the constitutional rights of American citizens." The "Daily Worker" dated april 18, 1951, page 9, eolumn 3; carried an article which stated that the National Committee for the Defense of W.E.B. DU BOIS and his associates in the former Peace Information Center initiated a nation-wide campaign for the dismissal of the indictments recently handed down by a Federal Grand Jury. The "Daily Worker" dated April 19, 1951, page 4, colum 1, carried an article entitled "Peace Lobbies Converge on UN Today". This article stated that Doctor W.E.B. DU BOIS, world-famous negro scholar and peace fighter, will meet today with BEN JAMIN V. COHEN, Assistant United Nations Secretary General, as part of the peaples delegation to the United Nations to seek an end to the war in Korea. The "Daily Worker" dated April 21, 1951, page 4, column 3, carried an article which stated that DU BOIS had announced plans to be praesent in the courtroom in Washington, D.C. on April 2end, where arguments to discuss the indictment against himself and his associates in the former Peace Infor- mation Center will be heard. The National Committee to Defend Doctor DU BOIS has also announced that delegations of citizens are being CONEDENTIAL