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NY 100=25857 Red Army uniform, went to the platform and kissed ROBESON on both cheeks. In the "New York Times" issue of October 8, 1946, it is reported that PAUL ROBESON testified at a hearing of the TENNEY Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities in Los Angeles, California. He was described in the article as a surprise witness at a series of hearings nominally concerned with the Ku Klux Klan and left wing activities in Holly- wood and he had beenssubpoenaed presumably because of his co-chairmanship with General EVANS“QARLSON of the National Committee to Win the Peace and other pro-Comnunis# activities. During the hearing he stated that the “best country in the world today to test the principles of MARXISM might be Americas; that he had chosen Russia as the place for the early education of his son; and that many Negro Americans would prefer the equality achieved in Russia to the "shadowy" freedom they have in the South, ROBESON had endorsed the candidacy of CHARLES OLLINS for the New York State Senete for the 2lst Senatorial District. ILINS is a well know Communist, being a member of the New York State Committee of the Communist Party. The "Daily Worker® issue of October aeons reported that PAUL co In the January 27, 1947, issue of the "New York Times” PAUL ROBESON was quoted as saying that he intended to abandon the theatre and concert atage to “tour up and down the nation against race hatred and prejudice. Also, according to the said issue of the "Times", ROBESON bed marched on the previous day at the head of a picket line, which about thirty members of the Civil Rights Congress of St. Louis had formed in front of the American Theatre to protest its alleged racial-segregation practices, — The "New York Times" issue of April 26, 1947, reported that ROBESON spoke on April 25, 1947, at the 10th Annual Rally of the Council on African