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BPM:RVM por Doc tree lle . _ ; es | Prey ie. NY 100-25857 | CON rate The “Daily Worker” issue of December 18, 1949, page 6, column 1, contained an article entitled, “What Has Russia Done for Negroes", the author of which was set forth as "PAUL ROBESON, Chairman, Council on African Affairs." - -- This article notes that its text is part of s prepared address by PAUL ROBESON at a dinner in New York on November 10, 1949, ~~ Sponsored by the NCASF, In the article, ROBESON compares the treatment of a Negro in the USSR and in the United States _ and cites the Soviet Union as an example where all discrimina- tion based on color or nationality has been abolished, - 4 a a tn ee The ‘Daily Worker’ issue of January 25, 1950, oe page 11, column 3, contained an article entitled, “New ROBESON Pamphlet Tells Why Negro Looks to USSR." This article announced a new mass-circulation pamphlet by PAUL ROBESON entitled, “The Negro People and the Soviet Union", which pamphlet contained the text of the eveech delivered by ROBESON at a recent benefit of the NCASF, The article pointed out that the distribution goal for this pamphlet wag one-half a million copies nationally. (r EITM <2yisea that on ST November 16, 1950, PAUL ROBESON attended a meeting of the ~~~"! NCASF held at the Riverside Plaza Hotel, New York City, in —_ honor of the 33rd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution -__ in Russia, tated that ROBESON, in his speech before \ the meeting, stated that hundreds of millions of people have Db set their eyes on the new star rising in the East and the ~~ peoples of the world have chosen “as their models of conduct and aspiration, the brave people and the stalwart leaders of etl the USSR, People's China, the North Korean Republic and the _ People's Democracies of Eastern Europe," re wo? / On November 15, 195) (ie a in v4 a a rally was held by the NCASF at the Riverside : Plaza Hotel, New York City. According toM@aRgp PAUL ROBEson 7-- spoke to the raliy and stated that they had a real friend in «f° . re ratte ree ner nent eae bene PL prema Rte le en etal tt RR RON Eom ee