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a4 7, i Nt ? a on Ls WN ! ~~ , lt rs ne od md ities OF WILLIAI EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOTS LOLA GRAHAM DU BOIS Dr. Bu Bois's passport folder contains the following information regarding the ceremony in which an honorary Charles University Degree was bestowed on Dr. Du Bois held October 23, 1958, at the University in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In his acceptance address Dr. Du Bois stated that the only countries which had even come close to obtaining socialism were the Soviet Union, China, Czechoslovakia and Yugodavia. He stressed the need for the use of socialism in the world's quest for peace and defined "true socialism” as being "pure communisn! Dr. Du Bois reportedly gave the impression that none of the nations in the communist block have reached the stage of having pure communism. Lb During the above ceremony Dr. Du Boist "honorary doctoral dissertation" was entitled "The Negro and Communism." In this he made the following points:'i 1. His efforts to helf the American Negro had always been ineffectual until the success of the Russian Revolution brought hone to him the fact that the plight of the Negro was more economic than political or sociological .W 2. America has moved a long way towards socialism citing examples of Social Security, health insurance and medical care, 3. American labor movement was reactionary « 4. The American Negro could no longer be considered as part of a malleable mass which can be organized and led in the vanguard of the proletariat. . The American Negroes have divided into classes just as have the American white peope and a definite American bourgeoisie has been formed. \