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i p «am ye oe eer }! i aohie ny j {. rT) Dena a wih » 4 ah PAUL L. ROBLSON L'fumanite (GEORGES LEON) September 3, 1960 Good ‘day to you, PAUL ROBESON! PAUL ROBESOK 1anded on French soil yesterday, cee afternoon, at the Bourget airport where a delegation of: *L'Humanité"® led by our comrade ROGER ROUCHAUTE, the paper's manager, was waiting for hin. He met us at once with a smile on his lips and drew near to embrace us, Then after the greetings, be ex- pressed at once hia joy at being here, at finding “all of © you again on Sunday at La Courneuve, at singing before you? and ehowing thus by his presence that our Festival has in his eyes a great importance, _ The travelers, who came from London with hin, had been watching him for a while, as he was waiting for his bags at the customs. A ,young Woman came up to him with an envelope. PAL ROBESON took it and thus siqned his first autograph. In the hall of the airport, people recognized him and we heard frequently the words: “at La Courneuve% The car which took us to the hotel followed a road which ran along the festival grounds, P. ROBESON saw the fiags which were being raised up the poles, had a glimpse of the colors hoisted on the thousand and one stands and said smiling: “this will be for tomorrow, a fine day." Hardly had our friend reached his room, when he confided to us how glad he was to see us again, and he added that he had another reason for feeling happy: his brother was in Paris and they were going to meet. In the restaurant a few minutes later, the head waiter soon managed to make us understand that he also knew the reason for the trip of our guest and that, like us, he woe qlad af 14 He cama hack at the end of the ment and reece eeu we *- Oe a CRT Eth &. ae eiag Ld we Wi Mme cA SEALE asked for an autograph “so that he might frame the menu: adorned by the signature,.* Several times during the meal received marke ~ sympathy from people who, recognizing him, greeted him «5@