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| . wy 05 | OFA 7 1 ' wee, 1 q I a H The "“Svening Star" newspaper, washington, D, Coy {seus of June 15, 1949, carricd an articlo ontitled . "soviet is Country I Leve Above All, ROBESON Quoted”. — This article was dote-Lined June 15,.ab bondon, “ngland, . 0 and the articlo reflected that ROBSSON Was quoted as telling an interviowcr from the official Tasa Nows Agency, as follows: "ty am thoroughly happy that I- eam sble to travel from time , to time to the USSR, the country T love above all." a On Juno 20, 1949, the records of the united States Department of State, Passport Dqvision, yashington, De Co, ~~ > reflected that subjcct planned to leave the Dnited States = - for Englend on February 11, 199, and had submitted an 4tincrary which included travel to paris, Frence. Those = records roflectod tho following information rogarding the... ....-— ————" subject's activities while Bg rn ; ROBSSON was in Oslo, Norwey, om April 23 and 24, — - 1949, end again from yay 2 to Mey 5, 1949. On his arrival at Oslo, subjoct reportodly gave a prossa conferences in which he strongly criticized President TRIMAN, the American Govoern- mont, and conditions in the United States, alleging that big | 0 money dominated ol11 aspocts of American life. He wxpressod . the intention to dicfend his twolve Communist friends on his) . | return to the United States. ROBUSON dupartod for London, \ England, on May 5, 1949, aftcr pleoing flowers on the graves __. . of Norwegian Communists killod during tho occupation, and ae Russian soldiers who lost their lives in liburating Norway. - These rocords r “leeted that ROBESON arrived in ~ » 1949, and was welcomed by a Communist official, one BROUNS “LIM, on behalf of the Stockholm" District of the si témnunist Party. on that evening, April 21, 1949, ROBESON rcportedly sang the oon. Soviet "Song of tho Fatherland" eat the Stockholm Concert: oo <rr7..> Hall, which brought whistles and cat calls from the audionces This angercd ROBESON and he launched into a specch oxtromely eritical of the treatment of the American Negroes { ane At a proses conference following the eonnont St: ROBSSON was report:d to have gone much furthor in his politie# °- cal utterances. Ho described _fmerice an demooracy eas “Hitlurta —— Fascism of tho 1942 model" * He attacked the Atlantic Past. =---- | { saying, "If tho Nordic countries adhore to it, the Americans -~). would ‘fight to tho last Scandinavian.” ee According te the official newspaper of the Sweden, "NY Dag", for April 22, 1949, ROBESON stated{"'T a4 do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably... ve DY sei ass ea ca ert a a av ve tay i ai “4 oh * a ep oar