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Ske eS ee * Lyf gd,' 4! CONFIDE -_—-— oe ee ee eee je [> ict NY 100-25857 APPENDIX SECTION ) National Paul Robeson Committee JOHN WILLIAMSON was convicted on October 14, 1949 in th United States District Court, Southern District of New York \ for violation of the Smith Act of 1940, On October 21, 1949, Le he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and fined ten . thousand dollars by Federal Judge HAROLD R. MEDINA. He was released from Federal prison on March 1, 1955. WILLIAMSON was granted permission to leave the United States voluntarily under warrent for deportation and departed from the United States for England on May 4, 1955. - Peo