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ere | ©) 7 paca CONFID EIR IAL' NY 100-25857 February 5, 1959, on page six, carries a column ‘ entitled, “Robeson Wins Tax Battle: Stalin Prize Ruled Exempt." This article reads as follows: I ff i “singer paul Robeson today won a five-year battle to escape taxation on the 625,000 Stalin Peace Prize he received in 1953. The Internal Revenue Service announced it is abandoning its claim that the Negro entertainer owed Federal income taxes of $9,655 on the award. In effect, the Revenue Service took the position that = the Stalin Prize -- the highest Soviet = award of its kind -~ is in the same ae cm tax-exempt category as the Nobel and = Pulitizer prizes. Mr. Robeson, sixty, is now seriously i111 in a Moscow hospital. He went to Russia after winning another lengthy fight to obtain a@ passport. The I.R.S. said it was conceding defeat because a careful atudy of previous court decisions, tax rulings and other precedents had resulted in the conclusion that the government's claim could not be sustained. Mr. Robeson claimed the Stalin Prize was a gift rather than compensation for services rendered, He .. told the tax court he at no time engaged in any activities or performed any services in expectation of the award.” Te tab eS IZ. CONNECTIONS WITH THE COMMUNIST PARTY (CP A. Activity of the cP. ee Concerning Distribution of ROBESON's Book "The Worker" issue of August 17, 1958, page