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* a STANDARD Morera fo. 64 my C 3 4 . Office Messorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO t DIRECTOR, FBI (100-1230k) pate V/2Afss - ol, sac » WFO (100-19021) SUBJECT: PAUL ROBESON SM-C (CO:NEW YORK) : ReWF0airtel dated 7/18/55. Mr. ASHLEY J. NICHOLAS, Assistant Director, Passport Of 1 tment of State, furnished the following information to SA ln Th9/s51 . ee C Subject and his attorney, LEON DIN of NYC, saw Miss FRANCES G. ‘KNIGHT, Director, PP Office, 7/18/55, re obtaining a PP for subject. In afternoon of 7/18/55, subject and BOUDIN had a conference with LOY HENDERSON, Undersecretary of State for Administration; HAYMUND T. YINGLING, Assistant Legal Adviser, Department of State; R. W. SCOTT MC LEOD, Administrator of the _ - ---~ Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State; Miss KNIGHT;--------—----- ; Mr. NICHOLAS; and a representative of the State Department press section, re a PP for subject. BOUDIN wanted to know if the State Department was still following what he termed the passport regulations scrapped by the courts" (referring to the recent court decisions in the cases of OTTO NATHAN, MAX ae SHACHTMAN, and CLARK NATHAN FOREMAN, of which the Bureau is aware, wherein the State Department issued passports rather than grant "quasi-judicial hearings" - these suits were brought by BOUDIN in oppcsition to the FP regnla- tions regarding limitations on issuance of passports to persons supporting the Commnist movement, as set forth in Section 51,135,.Title 22, Code of Federal Regulations IN was informed at this conference that the State Department was st owing the regulations. BOUDIN wanted to know why an exception could not Ke made for ROBESON under these regulations the same as _,, 4t was for JOSE » Daily Worker" correspondent who was issued a passport _—-—-on 7/11/55 to go to Geneva for the “summit meeting." The State Department officials told ROBESON and BOUDIN that such an exception could not be made ' - in his case. BOUDIN and ROBESON then immediately commented that it must then be a question of racial prejudice against ROBESON if an exception could not _ te made for him. The State Department officials denied this allegation and explicitly informed subject and BOUDIN that the question of "race" does not =. enter into this matter at all. NICHOLAS stated that some years ago the ~- == ~- State Department, under the Travel Control Regulations, refused to let ROBESON travel to Canada. BOUDIN and subject raised this question also at the con- | ference, stating that subject desired to go to Vancouver, 8B. C., for the _ weekend (July 23-2h, 1955). It was agreed that the Department would consider _ Prenate