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E B William Dubois — Part 3
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EAL A.C. Py told 1,000 “delegates....that socialien and the: United »
‘' Mations were the only hope for the backward ‘races of-the world -
wath which, -he said, the American negro is vy economic: position
closely ellied,® a
er
/48,
, advise st
e e pr time and I think that this was. quite recent. -~T - *
know the Communists were certainly interested in him."
he knew BOIS was a Communist (date not stated). DU BOIS,
axsefen on a long speaking tour for the Wallace move-. _
ment, and wes discherged from the B.A.A.C.P. for ‘ureing the - 5
Wallace line too. strongly. er
4
te, ra
corr TT on 8/31/48 subject ; sponsor of atatement
gant to Preaide
nt ana A a. of the a.s. condemning bhreterta-
a to
breeding arrests of national leaders of the Communist Party." ,
"The Post and Home News", WY Gaily newspaper of 12/31/48
reflected, "Dr. WILLIAM E. BSVDU BOIS, for many years associated
with the N. A, > Brerred Bis eliegiance todey to the left-
wing Council of African Affairs", - . \ n
Thea *ameterdam News" of 5/21/49. reflected ‘that’ the subject
was present at the World Peaca Conference in Paris, France; thet
subject said negroes should never willingly fight in an unjust .
_ war, but that he feared many would join America in any enterprise
provided the whites granted them equal rights to do wrong.
The "Daily Worker", 11/20/50 reported that at the Second
World Peace Congress subject was elected to the Presiding Committee
by acclamation after being nominated by the outgoing executives,
reported 1/15/51 that subject
was elected to the praesidium of the World Peace Congress at Warsaw,
According to the "“Worker“ 2/11/51, there was to be held at the Jsss
& reception for subject on 2/12/51,
~é. CONFIOQATIAL
— b/Ay/ ys aavined that the aubdject was suggested _
by the "ke a mesting of the Progressive .
- he thoug ois was ver or choice ror the reason that he :
(DU. BOIS) was a member of the CP, - . poe ;
told kT
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