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Se a a “ “me recent visit to Adelaide by PAUL ROBESON | _ trust be accounted a complete propaganda success. He : \tainers fram ‘overseas’, regardless of merit, 2 NY 1300-25857 was accepted by South Australians with the naive, } uncritical welcome they extend to almost a}l enter- = / Call "ROBESON gave two well-attended public concerts, a free performance for the Waterside Workers Federation, and several radio, television and press interviews. He also attended a reception given by the Eureka Youth League and the Australian-Soviet Friendship Society (both Communist affiliates} in honor of a visiting Soviet youth delegation, Both his performances and his interviews were heavily loaded _ | with propaganda designed to sell himself as a messenger of peace, brotherhood, and the rights of man. \ If Adelaide found such propaganda strange tontent for a musical concert, 4% made no public (and Little private) comment.) “she following quotes from reviewers show how Well ROBESON's message succeeded: = “What a fine mari PAUL ROBESON looked and sounded in Sunday's "Spotlight®,' on Channel 2. ; “He is a Crusader with so much to say it all comes gushing out of him, in words and in SONG. es f “Set my people free" 4s the theme of Mr. ROBESON's message on behaif of the negro wrace, and he speaks it, sings it, and lives it.’ “News, November 16, 1960 “4 yein the minds of everyone prestnt, including RCBESON, was the thought of the unique representativeness of the singer, who not only "drifted into drama and singing with a passivity which takes the breath away,".\as the programe note puts it, but has drifted (net quite so casually) into the position of a kind of one-man band (or league) of nations,’ wolf n Ct ONSET SoS IY SSE oo AS tL a NIRS CAE SM MMA SS GRU ROR OURO a RS on Ne clipe ah abso or Sh agg ea eae