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4 1 Le }) TO: DIRECTOR, FBI RE: PAUL ROBESON PAGE TWO With regard to her contacts with PAUL ROBESON advised that in 1936 she waé traveling h world with a gr said she may be able to secure the present address of the above-named persons. aa... on a five months' tour ie of-Burcpe and Russia. ~ During their travel.in Russia; the- party was having lunch one day in the International Hotel, s/ Moscow, durin when ROBESON walked into —_— the dining rogii 1OLel and sat dowy pear their table. Ee called EE atten- i tion to RUBSOUN and as go over and invite | \ k ROBESON to their table. HOBESON was alone and when asked by ee to come over to their table he responded. ee -:.-: ROBESON what he was. ussia, and she says ROBESON "stuck out his chest" "I am a Communist and I have come here to stay". said she asked ROBESON why he had come to Russia 2 ee ae what with all America had to offer, and ROBESON replied "Because here, I’m as good as anybod children can go to school with white children”, leita’: she asked if Russia would not take his ¢ ren away from him | and ROBESON replied "They won't take my children away - I'm ) uy a special person here ~- {'m training an opera company to deing in and repli 7 give TOM SAWYER - It is very amusing for me, a Negro, to ; be training White Russians to sing 10M SaWYE, Rin Russian « I speak Russian like a native." : When asked by y ee: he planned to return to America, ROBESON replied "I'm never going back - I'm tired of being pushed around over there - I'm a Communist and I can come out in the open over here = There's no such END PAGE Two . <— fl