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100-8032 LUN JPO® see in Soviet Russia in 25 years, it is possible to allow us these things now." She stated that a concerted program to eradicate racial discrimination by mass education and legisletionaffers the best means of eliminating the problen, end that just such a program had wiped out discrimination against the minorities in the Soviet Union. - On January 7, 1944, Mrs. ROBESON gave another talk on discrimination before the Civitan Club at the Bond Hotel in Hartford. On January 8, 1944, & news item concerning Mrs, ROBESON'S talk appeared in the Hartford COURANT entitled, "Urs, ROBESON Makes Plea For Negroes", 6 newspaper quoted Mrs, ROBESON as saying, "Part of a vast army engaged a war for freedom, American Negro _ soldiers stationed in camps in Mississippi are thinking that the South Pacific is _ a log way to go to fight for that freedom." She also stated that unless the: problem of relations is solved soon, "hostilities on the home front will "break out into open war before long'." The news item stated that Mrs. ROBESON pro- posed the institution of a code of laws to make discrimination and "name ealling" criminal offenses as a scientific way of coping with the situation. She said that although there is a whole religion about it and a political statement in our Constitution, nobody seems to pay any attention to equality and democracy. The press notice also appeared in the Hartford TIMES on January 7, 1944, regarding the same speech, which news item was entitled "Mrs. ROBESON Raps Racial Barriers". TF - @