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we, Pd & weet 7 Or ey may Ra See LD CG * : In the _ t 7, issue, at page 7, it is noted that PAUL RORESO" is quoted as saying, “When I step o to a stage in the future, I go on as & representative of the working class. I work with a consciousness of that in my mind. Joining unity theatre means identifying myself with the working class." In the Daily Worker of Hay 16, 1939, on page 1, PAUL ROBESON points out that there is no discrimination in Soviet circles and that his son, who attended school in Russia, got a cultural advantage there. Fron a highly confidential source it was learned by Special Aceon yo October 21, 1942, that PAUL ROBESON wrote the hereinafter b Jc quoted letter dated September 28, 1942, in connection with activities of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: In the prisons and concentration camps of Vichy France, hid- ing out in huts and villages, dodging the Gestapo day and Pee ect’ are thousands of the staunchest fighters against fascism. The last time I saw many of then they were fighting on the side of Republican Spain - against fascism. Today, they live only in the hcpe of striking another blow at our common enemy. They look to us alone for help. Hitler fears the inspiring leadership that these outstanding fighters will give to the people of the Continent when the Allies launch a Second Front. He is determined to exterminate them, as witness the present intensified wave of arrests and reprisals. We must be equally determined to rescue then. The Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Comrittee during the past year alone paid passages for more than 200 of these tried, indomitable people. Funds which it provided recently enabled 23 Yugoslavs to escape their sailers dn France and te rejoin their brothers in the Yugoslav guerrilla army. Many others who were aided are in the ranks of the British Com mandos. Scores more are serving on all fronts, from Britain to the Egyptian desert. Now the Vexican Government has granted thirty-eight new in- migration visas. Sixty more are expected within a few weeks. Boats are still sailing fro: Liston and Casablanca to Vera Cruz. We can and must rescue these people while we have this opportunity! - I have complete confidence in the ability of the Joint Anti- Fascist Refugee Committee to secure the return of these wonderful people to the anti-Axis fighting fronts. The Committee requires $88,640.00 for transportation and to assist others in France for whom we do not yet have visas. Le =, TTA -lR-