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\ 0 (VY On Confidential Inforgant reported OL that the Thi erican~Siavy Congress sponsored the "Rally t6 Win the Peace" NY 100-25857 REFERENCE: Bureau file 100-12304. Bureau letter, 1 L Report of SA 11/8/46, at New York. Cc ATES * DETATIS: ; Pa cr? |, on Confidential Info reported that \o PAUL ROBESON Was one of the sponsors and a member of ‘tne Executive Committee of the American Crusade to End Lynching which had set up headquarters at 23 West 26th Street, New York City. According to the informant, the said Committee planned to hold a "march on Washington on Monday, Septenber 23, 1946, delegates from all over the country to be participants therein." In New York City, the Negro Congress planned to send representatives and the Communist Party, Harlem, also would send representatives, according to the informants On September 12, 1946, at a pre-election rally, sponsored by the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions and the National Citizens Committee~Pac held in Madison Square Garden, PAUL ROBESON stated that no government as done so much for its people as Russia has. He described Russia as "the world's outstanding advocate of people and freedom." i) ee — _ on Confidential Informant Gjreported the © / |, agenda of the Veterans of the ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE Convention, held on September 21 and 22, 1946, at the Fraternal Club House, 110 West 48th Street, New York City. Addresses were made by BEN DAVIS, Communist Party Council- man; EUGENE) CONNELLY, Communist Perty Councilman; and the subject. Repre- sentatives/of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakia were present, In the course of the speech made by the subject, he stated "It is important not to be afraid of saying we are Communists," | at Madison Square Garden on the previous day, According to the informant, ROBESON spoke as Co~chairman of the National Committee to Win the Peace, He called upon the American people "to get elong with" the Slavs'led by Communists. A member of the Russian delegation to the rally, dressed in a sl