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~ Legation, Bucharest, Rumania, made information available on NY 100-25857 "Paul Robeson then spoke about his programs in Rumania, Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union, etc. In Bucharest he is going to attend a conference on folk-music. The West is now much | , propagating a new type of individualistic music, discarding traditions and classical music. ‘The apostles of this new music forget that music is rooted in the people and speaks to the people. MThe greatest composers, like Enescu, Mussorgsky, Bartok, fully realized that. Robeson wishes to sing Bartok in the course of his performances in Hw:gary. Finally he said: 'I am very optimistic about the future because those are in majority - Americans, English, Russians, the peace-loving people of the world - who are against war and who want peace". The United States Department of State, American September 3, 1959, which reflected that prior to leaving Rumania, on August 24, 1959, PAUL ROBESON was quoted in the press in an interview as stating that, starting this year he hoped to “live six months in each of the people's democracies". He said he would first return to Great Britain to play in "Othello" on September 1, 1959, and would attend a festival honoring "L'Humanite" in Paris, France, on September 4, 1959, and would come to Rumania in November, 1959, where he would remain, at least in the beginning, for about two months, He said he would then travel to the . Soviet Union and to Hungary. -18-