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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 15
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B: | and he was just tellin me hor, you know, he didnt¢ think |
' guch about our past policies, as he said he never dreanod |
i that we went go far, you see? He figured that at sax later
time it will be necessary for us to rerroup ourselves in the
; old party, and that this whole business was the change fron
CP to CPA. He firured thic was purcly something tactical you
pee, and he accepted it as such and didn't think much more
about it, so he's read DUCLOS' article and while we were tocether
this afternoon we went over paris of it and its really amazing,
he says that its obvious that we went too far, that's the way
i he sees it, and he was just rivinc me some of his experiences you
@eezon the Coast he met with gome cf the Chambers of Commerce -
/ gat there in Portland and in San Franoisco, and he was just
\ gseciny that well by Georpe its clear thet these puys are already
cot ae = 4 petting wery different orlentation, and he was talkinre about BARAT.”
\He says that well he hinscif, he and HARTY had some slicht
- disecreerent because HART! was busy telling his hav these rays
were OK you see, and he was tallcing to then | about the necro question,
especially about the problem of about 10,000 hegroes out there who
are coin: to be lnid off anc we don't have anywhere to live, won't
have anr jobs in this whole period betwoen now and reconversion, and
ho save these puys are prepared to do nothine, these Chanber of
Commerce usa, end he wontioned that this is, that thess people
@re more definitcl; allied in their views with ERIC JONNSTON who
is considered procressive than they arc with amybody elsc, and he says
he put the question to hin very fri, "Kell now what are you poing
to do with these £0,000 nezroes?" He says, "You om't lect them -
atearve, vou got te ceive then some place to live", and #0 forth
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and soen. He save oh well they ficure that oh wall they'll get
alon-, something will happen. So he made some proposal to than
about it, well he says just nothing against nothing. So he was
tclking to HATE about it end HARTY said that, "Tela P poctiy rou know I
think rou underestinate these people and I tell you
think their heart's inthe right place", and so forth ewe #0 OM,
‘out he himself had no proposal about the same thinc, and that he
gseomd to place a lot more confidences in thom than PAUL'S
excerience with them showed them to descrve. Well he cited 2
eviple of othcr instances and of course the main thin’ ho had to
gay, Well its very obvious that whatever you say of our position .
in the past, its very otvious now that this perspective is Just —
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suck as to preclude our foresecing this, Then we went over this
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