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f He is always there where witnessing is necessary, ready for the strugcle, open to friendship. When he sings, he is a tribune, and when he addresses those come to hear him, he is now, fully, an artist. - An Exemplary Life Remember the words he said as a greeting. Have you forgotten — the ‘bronze’ “good day* which he threw at us last year when the welcoming band became gilent before him? So it is always, in Stockholm, in London, ar in Moscow. Sometime ago in Peekskif/, at a famous meeting which turned loose against him the stupid fury of racism. He says and sings aloud what he thinks and he grants nothing, The life of this artist and of this man is exemplary in every respect, as far back as it can be followed. Zz is like what Zé is today. Always the same courage, the same de- termination, the same care and the same passion, Never does — he relax his effort, and everything down to the least detail reveals in him the unshakable will to take part in the his- tory of his time. Deprived for a long time of his most elementary right, he found the necessary means so that we might hear him. Present wherever it was necessary, in veekstif/ first before an immense audience or simply before a telephone to answer, in spite of everything, to the entreaties which came to him from everywhere, Obliged then ot to leave the American territory, PAUL ROJESON pursued the object of his mission. Sometimes people wondered, in his wn country, at his “obstinacy” in remaining faithful to his past. He was even asked why he had not, long before this, chosen to settle abroad, Then PAUL ROBESON replied: "Because my father was a slave end my ancestors died building this country. I remain | here because it is my right, just the same as you have. Wo fascist pressure shall be able to make me go. Is this clear?" As hie passport was taken from him, for eight years the great artist fought in Americar giving lectures, Singing 2s soon as he was able, receiving many visitors, writing his memadrs which he was to publish later as a beautiful book, each =2«