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An, NY 100-25657 | cag "Washington, May @7 - The House Committee on Une American Activities announced today it had summoned Paul Robeson to testify Tuesday in its investigation of alleged passport irregularities by Communist sympathizers. Mr. Robeson, left- wing basso, has traveled as an honored guest in the Soviet Union...." The “Daily Worker” issue of. June 13, 1956, pace one, cclumn three, contained an article entitled "rs Americans Cite Robeson as He Blasts Racism." This article reports the citation of ROBESON for contempt by the House Shen | Committee on Un-American Activities on dime 12, 1956, and ne details of ROBESON's testimony before the committee, In YS part, the article reed: oo - oni a er one des, - "He (ROBESON) said he had testified on behalf of the first Communist Party leaders tried under the Smith Act, whieh was now obnoxious to millions of Americans and would one day he — declared unconstitutional as Justice Hugo Black had seid it was. “Asked whether he was a Communist, Robeson we replied by asking Arens (committee counsel) ape whether he referred to the Communists ‘who were ag the first to die in the Meht against fascian, ! 4 the Communist Party which had ‘sacrificed so ~- ae much for my peoplel! Ben Davis, one of the : Communist leaders who was jailed under the - Smith Act, he said was one of his ‘dearest friends, ? one of the "best Americans! in contrast to the members of the committee who he added |, belonged with the Alien and Sedition ets. BENJAMIN J. BAVIS, JR. is one of the eleven members of the National Committee of the CF, USA, who was eonvieted on October 14, 1949, in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, for violation of the Smith Act of 1940, nitro ateremmr s