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Cr. LAT WU, IAL ‘ NY 100225857 ‘On the 15th ef April, 1944, the Worker reported that WILLIAM-CATILMORE, an alleged Communist Party member, news analyst would “ interview the subject at 1:45 pm on April 16, 1944 over Station WHN in connection with his birthday party on the sale Gaye In the iesus of the New York Herald Tribone of Apri 1 2 19445 . reference is made to the conference held on the 14th of April on + ertesa problems at the Institute for International Democracy, 23 West 26 Street (Council for African affaira). This article indicates that the comference =n was held by PAUL ROBESON who said that he has asked President Roosevelt and er | Secretary of State Cordell Hull to take the lead im developing an agreesent as between the United Nations on # program to raise the living standards of os Africans and other dependent peoples and prepare them for * eel f-governnent 3 __Mithin scheduled tine Mattes 4 {confidential InformantMMl wiose identity is known to the Bureau, - Feported on april 17, 1944 that/Uhe birthday party eof PAUL HOBESON's eu April 16, 1944 at the 34th Street Armory, the subject spoke and said that bs bad "Traveled a11 evar the world and has learned that not only negroes wore suffering, but that refugees whom he had wet, bad proved to his satisfaction that all races were suffering in one part of the oworld or bL another". Further the subject is reported to have said that freedom could not be obtained in this country while people were oppressed in other | #onuntries. The mibject further said that tha liberated peopls of tha Soviat . Unien were enjoying the rights gnd privileges of freedoms In this conneo~ tion, Confidential Informant#fadvised that ROBESON asserted that a com paratively limited few persons controlled the destinies of the people and that the 150 million people in Africa could not be held dows, The subjact is reported to have pointed out that history showed cases of people who were oppressed and who, in desperation, revolted and everthrew the oppressorse In addition, Informant advised that among the many notables attending the affair, there wore Dre MAX YERGAN of the Council on African Affairs, VICENET. > LOMBARDO OLEDANO. Presidant of the Latin American Confederation of Workers, MARY McLEOD‘SETMUNE, JOSEPH CURRAN, BENJAMIN DAVIS and EARL BROWDER, Nt hy) In the r of April 16, 1944, in the article written by f AM, there pears a etory concerning the subject's life and ° progress and it quoted ROBESON as saying about his first wisit to the USSR "How can I describe my feelings upon crossing the Soviet border. All I can say is that the moment I oams there I realized that I had found what I had been seoking all my life, It was a new planst—-a new constellation, It filled me with such happiness ag I have navar before imow in my life,® - — ow we Seurss aes my Haw e