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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 5
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Letieiae tak Tta Te! Chen Ga ee Tse ee
NY 100-25 857
: Tha “Now York Times" nowspeper, issue of Fabruary = -.
21, 2956, page 23, containud an article entitled "ROBZSON ........
Ready to Sing", This articlo stated that, in a statement
on Pobruary 20, 1996, PAL ROBSSON announced that he waa -
returning to public activity following his recovery from
an abdominal operation last ostobor,.
aan It. APFILIATION WITH “HU COMMUNIST MOVEMENT oso ou
OY mauniat Party Membershi
fommonset aa TJe-YOrr-Fost and Home Hows", a Now York nows-
papor, issue of July 14, 1949, contained an article entitled
“ROBESON Wante To Bo a Stalin, Carty Backs Him, House Told",
oo. 4.. Pate article stoeted thes an admitted former mombor of tho UCT
: Communist Party National Committee doseribed PAD. ROBESON as
CMa member of the cp for many years", The article continued
FF 4 that MINNING JOHTSON, testifying bofers the Housu Un<~American
oe Activitics Committce atated "tpi, ROBTSON has delusions of
eee grandeur. Ho is dwsirous ef becoming theblack STALIN and tho
Communiet Party is encouraging that.!", Tho article atated —
thet JOHNSON told the Committce that ho had been a CP mombur
up te 1940 and during his years of Communtat momberahip, had
| Lrequently met ROBISON in Party Nuadquarturs, "going to or -
coming from!" mootings with top Communist lenders, <TOHNSON
} steted that ROBSSON's Party momburship was kept scorot from
even rank and Pile Communiste, ©0000 ee <7
BESON was @ conccalod mumbar of
atinusd up until 1945, during
= : a: Meee Cescribud ROBESON
as @ leading mombor OY the CP] vd that, prior te
| 1945, he know A9BUS5ON to be a me a number of cp fronts”
and relied on by the Party to start drives that the Party
wanted to have opened, whoreby tho Nogrogs might be inettud
to indignation, Furthur, RIBISON was a atimulent for darge
_ Financial drives of tho Party. pees we ene E
Tw RUGSNS DENNIS, Guneral Sueretary of the Cp, WA, >
was one of the oleven CP leadurs convicted for violation af ™
the Smith Act of 1946 on Octebor I, 1949, in the United
States District Court for the Southorn District of New York,
Rew York City. tis furthur noted that JTACOR STACHET, was ON
also onc of the cloven CP leadors convicted as sut ferth abova,s
Po
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